§ 101-48.305 - Property other than distilled spirits, wine, malt beverages, firearms, and drug paraphernalia.

(a) Property forfeited other than by court decree or voluntarily abandoned, except distilled spirts, wine, malt beverages, firearms, and drug paraphernalia, which is not returned to a claimant, retained by the agency of custody, or transferred in accordance with subpart 101-48.1 may be released to the holding agency by the GSA National Capital Region for public sale, except as otherwise provided by law.

(b) Abandoned or other unclaimed property which is not retained by the holding agency, not transferred to another agency, or not required to be reported by the provisions of § 101-48.102, may be reported for sale to the appropriate selling activity at any time after title vests in the United States as provided in § 101-48.102-1.

(c) Voluntarily abandoned, abandoned, or other unclaimed property and, in the absence of specific direction by a court, forfeited property, normally shall be sold by competitive bid as prescribed in § 101-45.304-1, subject to the same terms and conditions as would be applicable to the sale of surplus personal property. Voluntarily abandoned, abandoned, or other unclaimed property and forfeited property may be sold also by negotiation at the discretion of the selling agency but only under the circumstances set forth in § 101-45.304-2. Such property shall be identified by the holding agency as abandoned or other unclaimed, voluntarily abandoned, or forfeited property, and shall be reported for sale to the appropriate GSA regional office or to such other agency as otherwise is responsible for selling its surplus personal property unless specifically required by law to be sold by the holding agency.