175. The municipality may cause to be sold at auction, by bailiff, without any judicial proceedings and after the notices required for the sale of movables under a seizure of property in execution, all movable effects in its possession which are unclaimed within six months and which have been abandoned or whose owner cannot be found.
If such property is claimed after the sale, the municipality shall be liable only for the proceeds of the sale, after deducting the cost of the sale and other expenses which it may have incurred. If they cannot be sold because they have no merchantable value, they may be destroyed after publication of similar notices, and if they are claimed after destruction, the municipality shall not be liable for the payment of any indemnity or compensation.
1978, c. 87, s. 175; 1992, c. 61, s. 633; 1996, c. 2, s. 1105; I.N. 2016-01-01 (NCCP).