25 §3501. Application of chapter

Title 25: INTERNAL SECURITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY

Part 9: LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN GENERAL

Chapter 401: DISPOSAL OF UNCLAIMED, LOST OR STOLEN PERSONAL PROPERTY BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES HEADING: PL 2003, C. 20, PT. T, §15 (RPR)

§3501. Application of chapter

This chapter shall apply to all personal property of which possession is transferred to a police department or other law enforcement agency of the State or any political subdivision thereof, under circumstances supporting a reasonable belief that such property was abandoned, lost or stolen, or otherwise illegally possessed, except property seized during search and retained and ultimately returned, destroyed or otherwise disposed of pursuant to a court order or some other law hereafter applicable to specific property or circumstance. This chapter shall apply to personal property seized during search and retained which is not offered or admitted as evidence and which, after retention by a police department or other law enforcement agency, becomes abandoned. [1983, c. 254, §1 (AMD).]

SECTION HISTORY

1975, c. 558, (NEW). 1983, c. 254, §1 (AMD).