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244.180 Contraband defined.
The following property, even though found and seized in dry territory, is contraband:
(1) Any apparatus commonly used or intended to be used in the manufacture of
alcoholic beverages and not registered in the office of a collector of internal
revenue for the United States. The burden of proof that the apparatus is so
registered shall be on the defendant.
(2) Any and all material, equipment, implements, devices, firearms and other
property used or intended for use directly and immediately in connection with
the unlawful traffic in alcoholic beverages.
(3) Any alcoholic beverages in the possession of anyone not entitled by law to
possess them.
(4) Any alcoholic beverages to which the revenue stamps or tax crowns have not
been affixed as required by KRS 243.720 to 243.850.
(5) Any alcoholic beverages in a container of a size prohibited by law or prohibited
to the particular party in whose possession they are found.
(6) Any vehicle, watercraft or aircraft in which any person is illegally possessing or
transporting alcoholic beverages. "Illegally possessing" means and includes the
holding of any alcoholic liquors unless lawfully acquired and intended for lawful
uses.
Effective:July 13, 1984
History: Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 132, sec. 2, effective July 13, 1984. -Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky.
Stat. sec. 2554b-151.
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