08/05/2025 Ordinances 10,030 ORDINANCE NO. 10,030
An ordinance to amend Chapter 1 of Grand Island City Code; to amend Sections
1-13 and 1-14; to clarify and/or make general corrections to various code sections, to repeal any
ordinance or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith; and to provide for publication and the
effective date of this ordinance.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GRAND ISLAND,NEBRASKA:
SECTION 1. Sections 1-13 and 1-14 of the Grand Island City Code are hereby
amended to read as follows:
§1-13 Sale of Abandoned Property
The chief of police is hereby empowered to offer for sale and to sell at public auction
including sale by internet or other electronic medium to the highest bidder, all personal property,
except impounded vehicles, and except property of a nature dealt with in §1-14 which may come
within the custody of the police department by reason of its being abandoned, impounded, or
unclaimed. Notice of such sale shall be printed once in a legal newspaper published in the City of
Grand Island at least ten(10) days prior to the sale or by being posted on the City of Grand
Island website for a period of at least ten (10) days prior to the sale; provided, that no such
property shall be offered or sold unless it shall have remained unclaimed by the lawful owner for
a period of sixty (60) days after it shall have come within the custody of the Chief of Police or
the Police Department, or, in the case of property taken from or deposited by, persons arrested,
detained, or accused of crime, shall have remained unclaimed for a period of sixty (60) days after
the discharge, liberation or departure of the person from whom such property was taken or by
whom such property was deposited.
It shall be the responsibility of the chief of police to make such effort as they deems
reasonable to notify the lawful owner of any such property that it will be sold or otherwise
disposed of upon a given date.
All money received from the sale of the unclaimed property shall be paid to the Chief of
Police, whose duty it shall be to account for such money collected by him/her to the city
treasurer who shall place the same in the police fund.
§1-14 Disposal of Contraband
ORDINANCE NO. 10,030 (Cont.)
The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to cause to be destroyed, or to dispose of in such
other lawful manner as they deem proper all firearms, alcoholic beverages, contraband, or such
other property, the possession of which may be unlawful, prohibited or regulated by federal,
state, or local statutes or ordinances, which may come within the custody of the police
department by reason of its being abandoned, recovered, confiscated, impounded or unclaimed.
That all such property shall be held for a period of not less than sixty (60) days prior to
the disposition, and it shall be the responsibility of the Chief of Police to make such effort as
they deem reasonable to notify the lawful owner of any such property prior to its disposal that it
will be destroyed or otherwise disposed of upon a given date.
SECTION 2. Any ordinance or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith be, and
hereby are, repealed.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be in force and take effect from and after its
passage and publication, within fifteen days in one issue of the Grand Island Independent as
provided by law.
Enacted: August 5, 2025.
Roge . Steele, Mayor
Attest:
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Sonya Cisneros, Deputy City Clerk
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