Salvaging abandoned property (e.g. kicked in bikes)

rubadub

Are there any laws in relation to salvaging abandoned property?

There is a thread in the cycling forum about this http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055329756

AFAIK there are laws about salvaging boats, so would expect similar ones about bikes or abandoned cars.

You see kicked in bikes abandoned in town in legitimate bike racks, so I presume the council must have some legal time they must wait before removing and destroying them.

Rhonda9000

I would imagine this is covered either under the Waste Management Act 1996 - there are specific provisions relating to abandoned vehicles s.71 (power granted to Local Authority to remove), but not abandoned bicycles to the best of my knowledge ...

OR

... (more probably) be deemed litter under the Litter Pollution Act 1997, under which the relevant Local Authority must implement a Litter Management Plan.

pirelli

rubadub wrote: »

Are there any laws in relation to salvaging abandoned property?

There is a thread in the cycling forum about this http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055329756

AFAIK there are laws about salvaging boats, so would expect similar ones about bikes or abandoned cars.

You see kicked in bikes abandoned in town in legitimate bike racks, so I presume the council must have some legal time they must wait before removing and destroying them.

This link defines what an abandoned vehicle is, and gives answers questions on abandoned vehicles. You could collect decent enough parts and give them to the police. They will return them to you if no one claims them.

http://www.ealing.gov.uk/services/environment/abandoned_vehicles/FAQs/index.html

Rhonda9000

Above link defines what an abandoned vehicle is to the UK courts. OP is based in SE Dublin and presumably curious to the situation in their own jurisdiction?

_JOE_

Interesting...I was thinking of something similar a couple of weeks ago in relation to property collected off the streets from the local council and then dumped in skips...to use the aforementioned scenario, would a bike frame/parts be considered abandoned if one was to take the said bike from the skip, or would it have to be submitted to the Gardai first, to check for registration (whether the bike was reported stoled) or would this matter?

Victor

Councils don't use skips. Skips, their use and their contents are private property.

Sometimes councils will have a collection 1-2 times a year to collect houshold junk to stop it being dumped elsewhere.

_JOE_

Victor wrote: »

Councils don't use skips. Skips, their use and their contents are private property.

Sometimes councils will have a collection 1-2 times a year to collect houshold junk to stop it being dumped elsewhere.

Yes they do. Anytime the County Council clear out a house vacated in a council estate, they use skips to clear out the entire house whilst the are renovating it, as they are usually in a terrible state...anything which is not already dumped in the garden, is put in the skip, either by the council or neighbours...