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BALTIMORE COUNTY

SECTION 2-15.26 SEVERABILITY

IF ANY PROVISION OF THIS ACT, OP THE PARTICULAR
APPLICATION THEREOF, SHALL BE HELD INVALID, THE
REMAINING PROVISIONS, AND THEIR APPLICATION, SHALL NOT
BE AFFECTED THEREBY.

SECTION 2. BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect forty—five days after its enactment.

APPROVED AND ENACTED: September 15, 1972.

BILL NO. 106-72

AN ACT to provide for the distribution of unclaimed
bicycles, held by the Police Department, to
charitable, non-profit or eleemosynary agencies
or institutions or to the Baltimore County Foster
Parents Association, by repealing and re—enacting
with amendments Section 24—11 of the Baltimore
County Code, 1968 (1971 Cumulative Supplement)
title "Police Department," Article II.
Disposition of unclaimed property.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL
OF BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND, That Section 24-11 of
the Baltimore County Code, 1968 (1971 Cumulative
Supplement) title "Police Department," Article II.
Disposition of unclaimed property, be and it is hereby
repealed and re—enacted with amendments, to read as
follows:

Section 24—11. Authorized methods of disposal

(A) The chief of police of the county is hereby
authorized and empowered to sell, at public auction,
any and all lost, abandoned, stolen, lawfully seized
or unclaimed property, of every kind and description
remaining unclaimed for thirty days or more in the
possession or under the control of the police [bureau]
DEPARTMENT; provided, that the chief of police shall,
prior to any public auction sale, advertise, once in
one or more newspapers printed and published in the