NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 80

SENATE BILL 112

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO SEIZURE AND SALE OF ILLEGAL DISTILLERIES AND MATERIALS USED THEREFOR.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 18A-22 is rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 18A-22.  Law enforcement officers to search for and seize distilleries: confiscation; disposal of property. — (a) It is the duty of all sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, municipal police, rural police, State and local ABC officers, and other law enforcement officers to search for and seize all equipment and materials used for the illegal manufacture of intoxicating liquor; and, except as provided in subsection (b), to retain the equipment and materials at the office of the law enforcement agency making the seizure until disposed of by court order.

(b)        It is the duty of the sheriff and other officers mentioned in this section to seize and then and there destroy any liquor, non-saleable equipment or perishable materials which may be found at any distillery for the illegal manufacture of intoxicating liquor, such not being required for evidence, and to arrest and hold for trial all persons found on the premises engaged in distilling or aiding or abetting in the manufacture of intoxicating liquor."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of March. 1973.