Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 256 - ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS, WINES AND BEER

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 176 OF THE REVISED CODE OF DELAWARE, 1935, IN REFERENCE TO SEIZURES OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR, WINES AND BEER.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. That Chapter 176 of the Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, be and the same is hereby amended by inserting a new paragraph to be known as 6182. Section 53:

6182. Section 53. Wherever alcoholic liquor is being peddled in this State or whenever any alcoholic liquor in excess of one bottle of spirits or in excess of twelve bottles or twenty-four half bottles of wine or beer is transported in this State, unaccompanied by a license to transport such alcoholic liquor in accordance with the provisions of 6165. Section 36, of said chapter, or unaccompanied by a way bill as provided in 6166. Section 37 of this Act, any police officer of the State or sub-division thereof or any inspector of the Commission may seize such alcoholic liquor, as well as the receptacle or receptacles containing the same, and hand them over to the Commission which shall keep them in its custody until the Court has, in its discretion, disposed of them by a judgment.

Approved April 29, 1937.