The City Recorder shall make reasonable efforts to ascertain the names and addresses of the legal owner and owners or persons entitled to possession of the personal property taken into custody under Sections 8.24.020 through 8.24.040. If the names and addresses of such owners or persons entitled to possession, or either of them, can be ascertained, the City Recorder shall notify each of them of the location of the personal property and that it will be sold to meet the expense of taking, holding and sale of the property. If it is a motor vehicle and registered in the office of the Motor Vehicles Division of this state, notice shall be deemed given by registered or certified letter addressed to the registered owner of the vehicle and a similar letter addressed to the legal owner, if any, at the respective address of each shown by the records of the office of the Motor Vehicles Division, with return receipt requested and postage prepaid thereon, and mailed at least twenty days before the vehicle is sold as provided in this chapter.