{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-22-22-1325","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 22, § 22-1325","heading":"Unclaimed property or money in possession of sheriff's","body":"office or campus police agency - Disposition - Procedure.\n\nA. Any sheriff's office or campus police agency as authorized\n\nunder the Oklahoma Campus Security Act is authorized to dispose of\n\nby public sale, destruction, donation, or transfer for use to a\n\ngovernmental subdivision personal property which has come into its\n\npossession, or deposit in a special fund, as hereafter provided, all\n\nmoney or legal tender of the United States which has come into its\n\npossession, whether the property or money be stolen, embezzled,\n\nlost, abandoned or otherwise, the owner of the property or money\n\nbeing unknown or not having claimed the same, and which the sheriff\n\nor campus police agency has held for at least six (6) months, and\n\nsuch property or money, or any part thereof, being no longer needed\n\nto be held as evidence or otherwise used in connection with any\n\nlitigation.\n\nB. Where personal property held under the circumstances\n\nprovided in subsection A of this section is determined by the agency\n\nhaving custody to be unsuitable for disposition by public sale due\n\nto its condition or assessed by agency personnel as having limited\n\nor no resale value, it may be destroyed, discarded as solid waste or\n\ndonated to a charitable organization designated by the U.S. Internal\n\nRevenue Service as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Where\n\ndisposition by destruction, discard, or donation is made of personal\n\nproperty, a report describing the property by category and quantity,\n\nand indicating what disposition was made for each item or lot, shall\n\nbe submitted to the presiding judge of the district court within ten\n\n(10) days following the disposition.\n\nC. Where disposition by public sale is appropriate, the\n\nsheriff's office or campus police agency shall file an application\n\nin the district court of its county requesting the authority of the\n\ncourt to dispose of such personal property, and shall attach to the\n\napplication a list describing the property, including all\n\nidentifying numbers and marks, if any, the date the property came\n\ninto the possession of the sheriff's office or campus police agency\n\nand the name and address of the owner, if known. The court shall\n\nset the application for hearing not less than ten (10) days nor more\n\nthan twenty (20) days after filing.\n\nD. Written notice shall be given by the sheriff's office or\n\ncampus police agency of the hearing to each and every owner if known\n\nand as set forth in the application by first-class mail, postage\n\nprepaid, and directed to the last-known address of the owner at\n\nleast ten (10) days prior to the date of the hearing, unless the\n\npersonal property is held by the sheriff's office as inmate\n\ncommissary and is less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) in which case\n\nnotice by first-class mail shall not be required. The notice shall\n\ncontain a brief description of the property of the owner and the\n\nplace and date of the hearing. Notice of the hearing shall be\n\nposted in three public places in the county, one being the county\n\ncourthouse at the regular place assigned for the posting of legal\n\nnotices or shall be published in a newspaper authorized by law to\n\npublish legal notices in the county in which the property is\n\nlocated. If no newspaper authorized by law to publish legal notices\n\nis published in such county, the notice shall be published in a\n\nnewspaper of general circulation which is published in an adjoining\n\ncounty. The notice shall state the name of the owner being notified\n\nby publication and shall be published at least ten (10) days prior\n\nto the date of the hearing.\n\nE. At the hearing, if no owner appears and establishes\n\nownership to the property, the court shall enter an order\n\nauthorizing the sheriff's office or campus police agency to donate\n\nproperty having a value of less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00)\n\nto a not-for-profit corporation as defined in Title 18 of the\ntion and shall be published at least ten (10) days prior\n\nto the date of the hearing.\n\nE. At the hearing, if no owner appears and establishes\n\nownership to the property, the court shall enter an order\n\nauthorizing the sheriff's office or campus police agency to donate\n\nproperty having a value of less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00)\n\nto a not-for-profit corporation as defined in Title 18 of the\n\nOklahoma Statutes or to sell the personal property to the highest\n\nbidder for cash, after at least five (5) days of notice has been\n\ngiven by publication in one issue of a legal newspaper of the\n\ncounty. The sheriff's office or campus police agency shall make a\n\nreturn of the donation or sale and, when confirmed by the court, the\n\norder confirming the donation or sale shall vest in the recipient or\n\npurchaser title to the property so donated or purchased.\n\nF. A sheriff's office having in its possession money or legal\n\ntender under the circumstances provided in subsection A of this\n\nsection, prior to appropriating the same for deposit into a special\n\nfund, shall file an application in the district court of its county\n\nrequesting the court to enter an order authorizing it to so\n\nappropriate the money for deposit in the special fund. The\n\napplication shall describe the money or legal tender, together with\n\nserial numbers, if any, the date the same came into the possession\n\nof the sheriff's office or campus police agency, and the name and\n\naddress of the owner, if known. Upon filing, the application, which\n\nmay be joined with an application as described in subsection C of\n\nthis section, shall be set for hearing not less than ten (10) days\n\nnor more than twenty (20) days from the filing thereof, and notice\n\nof the hearing shall be given as provided in subsection D of this\n\nsection. The notice shall state that, upon no one appearing to\n\nprove ownership to the money or legal tender, the same will be\n\nordered by the court to be deposited in the special fund by the\n\nsheriff's office or campus police agency. The notice may be\n\ncombined with a notice to sell personal property as set forth in\n\nsubsection D of this section. At the hearing, if no one appears to\n\nclaim and prove ownership to the money or legal tender, the court\n\nshall order the same to be deposited by the sheriff's office or\n\ncampus police agency in the special fund, as provided in subsection\n\nH of this section.\n\nG. Where a sheriff's office or campus police agency has in its\n\npossession under the circumstances provided in subsection A of this\n\nsection, personal property deemed to have potential utility to that\n\nsheriff's office, campus police agency or another governmental\n\nsubdivision, prior to appropriating the personal property for use,\n\nthe sheriff's office or campus police agency shall file an\n\napplication in the district court requesting the court to enter an\n\norder authorizing it to so appropriate or transfer the property for\n\nuse. The application shall describe the property, together with\n\nserial numbers, if any, the date the property came into the\n\npossession of the sheriff's office or campus police agency and the\n\nname and address of the owner, if known. Upon filing, the\n\napplication, which may be joined with an application as described in\n\nsubsection C of this section, shall be set for hearing not less than\n\nten (10) days nor more than twenty (20) days from the filing\n\nthereof. Notice of the hearing shall be given as provided in\n\nsubsection D of this section. The notice shall state that, upon no\n\none appearing to prove ownership to the personal property, the\n\nproperty will be ordered by the court to be delivered for use by the\n\nsheriff's office or campus police agency or its authorizing\n\ninstitution or transferred to another governmental subdivision for\n\nits use. The notice may be combined with a notice to sell personal\n\nproperty as set forth in subsection D of this section. At the\npon no\n\none appearing to prove ownership to the personal property, the\n\nproperty will be ordered by the court to be delivered for use by the\n\nsheriff's office or campus police agency or its authorizing\n\ninstitution or transferred to another governmental subdivision for\n\nits use. The notice may be combined with a notice to sell personal\n\nproperty as set forth in subsection D of this section. At the\n\nhearing, if no one appears to claim and prove ownership to the\n\npersonal property, the court shall order the property to be\n\navailable for use by the sheriff's office or campus police agency or\n\ndelivered to an appropriate person for use by the authorizing\n\ninstitution or another governmental subdivision.\n\nH. The money received from the sale of personal property as\n\nabove provided, after payment of the court costs and other expenses,\n\nif any, together with all money in possession of the sheriff's\n\noffice or campus police agency, which has been ordered by the court\n\nto be deposited in the special fund, shall be deposited in such fund\n\nwhich shall be separately maintained by the sheriff's office in a\n\nspecial fund with the county treasurer or campus police agency to be\n\nexpended upon the approval of the sheriff or head of the campus\n\npolice agency for the purchase of equipment, materials or supplies\n\nthat may be used in crime prevention, education, training or\n\nprogramming. The fund or any portion of it may be expended in\n\npaying the expenses of the sheriff or any duly authorized deputy or\n\nemployee of the campus police agency to attend law enforcement or\n\npublic safety training courses which are conducted by the Oklahoma\n\nCouncil on Law Enforcement Education and Training (CLEET) or other\n\ncertified trainers, providers, or agencies.\n\nI. The disposition of biological evidence, as defined by\n\nSection 1372 of this title, shall be governed by the provisions set\n\nforth in Section 1372 of this title.","path":["OK Code","Title 22"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os22.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"969415eb3f2c2b73bc531593cc121299365b44d8f0df6a0379ef9a6b02d64873","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-22-22-1324","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-22-22-1326"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}