GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 637
SENATE BILL 1221

AN ACT RELATING TO SALES OF SEIZED, UNCLAIMED PROPERTY BY THE CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 15-13 reads as rewritten:
"§ 15-13.  Public sale 30 days after publication of notice.
If said articles shall remain unclaimed or satisfactory evidence of ownership thereof not be presented to the sheriff or police department, as the case may be, for a period of 30 days after the publication of the notice provided for in G.S. 15-12, then the said sheriff or police department in whose custody such articles may be is hereby authorized and empowered to sell the same at public auction or by sealed bid for cash to the highest bidder, either at the courthouse door of the county, the county law enforcement headquarters if the sale is conducted by the sheriff, at the police headquarters of the municipality in which the said articles of property are located, or, if the sale is by sealed bid, in the office of the purchasing department, and at such sale to deliver the same to the purchaser or purchasers thereof."
Sec. 2.  This act applies to the City of Winston-Salem only.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of June, 1996.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives