(765 ILCS 1030/1) (from Ch. 141, par. 141)
Sec. 1.
This Act is applicable to all personal property of which possession
is transferred to a police department or other law enforcement agency of
the State or a
county, city, village or incorporated town, under circumstances supporting
a reasonable belief that such property was abandoned, lost or stolen or
otherwise illegally possessed, except property seized during a search, and
retained and ultimately returned, destroyed or otherwise disposed of
pursuant to order of a court in accordance with Section 108-11, 108-12 or
114-12 of the "Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963" or other law
hereafter applicable to property thus retained, and except property of
which custody and disposition is prescribed by Article II of Chapter 4 of
The Illinois Vehicle Code.
(Source: P.A. 84-505.)