§ 38-26. Police to seize and take possession.  


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  • The police department is hereby authorized to seize and reduce to the possession of the police department any bicycles, any machinery or part thereof, whether stolen, wrecked, lost or otherwise abandoned, which may be found upon any of the public streets and highways of the city, also any boat or skiff, whether stolen, wrecked, lost or otherwise abandoned which may be found upon any of the rivers, public canals, lakes or other waterways, or upon the banks of such bodies of water, and any other personal property or property of value whether stolen, wrecked, lost or otherwise abandoned upon the public streets and highways, or upon the public waterways and the banks thereof, or upon any public ground or in any public building in the city.

(Code 1981, § 16.5-11)