§ 2080.8
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(a)The Regents of the University of California and the Trustees of the California State University, as applicable, may provide by resolution or regulation for the care, restitution, sale, or destruction of unclaimed, lost, or abandoned property in the possession of the Regents of the University of California, the University of California Police Department, or any state university.
(b)Any resolution or regulation adopted pursuant to this section shall provide therein
(1)that unclaimed, lost, or abandoned property valued at or above three hundred dollars ($300) shall be held by the Regents of the University of California, the University of California Police Department, or the particular state university for a period of at least three months,
(2)that thereafter the property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder, and
(3)that notice of that sale shall be given by the Regents of the University of California, the University of California Police Department, or the Trustees of the California State University at least five days before the time therefor by publication once in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which the property is held.
(c)The Regents of the University of California or the Trustees of the California State University may dispose of any of that property upon which no bid is made at any sale.