Boonville Stolen property ordinance (§ 18-9)

(a) When property alleged to have been stolen, purloined, embezzled, or obtained by false pretense shall come into the custody of the police department, it shall hold the same subject to the order of the court authorized to direct the disposition thereof.

(b) Upon satisfactory proof of the title of any owner of such property, said court may order the same to be delivered to such owner on his paying the reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the safekeeping and preservation of such property, to be certified to by the court, which order shall entitle the owner to demand and receive such property.