§ 11 to 40. — Repealed.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 27USC11]
TITLE 27--INTOXICATING LIQUORS
CHAPTER 2--PROHIBITION OF INTOXICATING BEVERAGES
Secs. 11 to 40. Repealed. Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 740, title I,
Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 872
Section 11, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 2, 41 Stat.
308, authorized Commissioner of Internal Revenue, his assistants,
agents, and inspectors to swear out warrants before United States
commissioners [now United States magistrate judges] or other officers or
courts authorized to issue warrants, and to investigate and report
violations of this title to United States attorney for district in which
violations were committed.
Section 12, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 3, 41 Stat.
308, provided that no person manufacture, sell, barter, transport,
import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor
except as otherwise provided by provisions of this title.
Section 13, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 4, 41 Stat.
309, exempted specified articles, after having been manufactured and
prepared for market, from provisions of this title, required
manufacturers of such exempt articles to secure permits, give bonds,
keep records, and make reports, and made unlawful the failure to comply
with any of foregoing requirements.
Section 14, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 5, 41 Stat.
309, authorized commissioner to analyze specified manufactured articles
in order to determine whether said articles constituted intoxicating
liquors.
Section 15, act Nov. 23, 1921, ch. 134, Sec. 2, 42 Stat. 222,
authorized commissioner to order a change of formula of preparations
used as a beverage or for intoxicating liquor purposes where sale or use
of such preparations was substantially increased in community by reason
of its use as a beverage or for intoxicating beverage purposes.
Section 16, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 6, 41 Stat.
310, required that any person manufacturing, selling, purchasing,
transporting, or prescribing any liquor, except liquor purchased and
used for medicinal purposes when prescribed by a physician, liquor
purchased and used in a bona fide hospital or sanitarium for treatment
of alcoholism, and wine manufactured, etc., for sacramental or religious
purposes, first obtain a permit from commissioner.
Section 17, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 7, 41 Stat.
311, authorized no one but a physician holding a permit to prescribe
liquor to issue any prescription for liquor, required every such
physician to keep a record of every prescription issued, and required
pharmacist filling each prescription issued to indorse upon it over his
own signature ``canceled''.
Section 18, act Nov. 23, 1921, ch. 134, Sec. 2, 42 Stat. 222,
specified kinds of liquor which could be prescribed for medicinal
purposes, percentage of alcohol in such prescriptions, and quantity
permitted to be prescribed.
Section 19, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 8, 41 Stat.
311, authorized commissioner to issue prescription blanks, free of cost,
to physicians holding permits to prescribe liquor for medicinal
purposes.
Section 20, act Nov. 23, 1921, ch. 134, Sec. 2, 42 Stat. 222, set
forth number of prescription blanks that could be issued to a physician,
and number of prescriptions that could be issued by a physician.
Section 21, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 9, 41 Stat.
311, set forth procedure by which commissioner could cite permittees
believed not to be conforming to provisions of this title, or who had
violated laws of any State relating to intoxicating liquors.
Section 22, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 10, 41 Stat.
312, required every person manufacturing, purchasing, selling, or
transporting any liquor to make and keep a permanent record of all such
transactions.
Section 23, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 11, 41 Stat.
312, required all manufacturers and wholesale or retail druggists to
keep a copy of all permits to purchase on which a sale of any liquor was
made.
Section 24, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 12, 41 Stat.
312, required all persons manufacturing liquor for sale to attach labels
to every container, and specified the information to be placed on such
labels.
Section 25, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 13, 41 Stat.
312, required every carrier to make a record at place of shipment of
receipt of any liquor transported, and to deliver liquor only to persons
presenting to him a verified copy of a permit to purchase.
Section 26, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 14, 41 Stat.
312, made it unlawful for any person to use or induce any carrier, or
any agent or employee thereof, to carry or ship any package or
receptacle containing liquor without notifying carrier of true nature
and character of shipment, and required all packages carrying liquor to
contain enumerated information.
Section 27, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 15, 41 Stat.
313, made it unlawful for any consignee to accept any package containing
liquor upon which appeared a statement known by him to be false, or for
any carrier to consign, etc., any such package, knowing such statement
to be false.
Section 28, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 16, 41 Stat.
313, made it unlawful to order a carrier to deliver liquor to any person
not a bona fide consignee.
Section 29, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 17, 41 Stat.
313, made it unlawful to advertise liquor, or manufacture, sale, or
keeping for sale of liquor, and exempted manufacturers and wholesale
druggists holding permits to sell liquor from prohibition when
furnishing price lists to persons permitted to purchase liquor or when
advertising in business publications.
Section 30, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 18, 41 Stat.
313, made it unlawful to advertise, manufacture, sell, or possess for
sale any utensil, ingredient, or formula intended for use in unlawful
manufacture of intoxicating liquor.
Section 31, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 19, 41 Stat.
313, prohibited any person from soliciting or receiving orders for
liquor or giving information as to how liquor could be obtained in
violation of this title.
Section 32, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 20, 41 Stat.
313, gave a right of action to any person injured in person, property,
means of support, or otherwise by any intoxicated person against any
person who unlawfully sold liquor to such intoxicated person, or caused
or contributed to such intoxication.
Section 33, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 21, 41 Stat.
314, declared any property used in connection with a violation of this
title to be a common nuisance, set forth punishment for maintenance of a
common nuisance, and made owner of such property liable.
Section 34, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 22, 41 Stat.
314, set forth procedure which authorized an action in equity to enjoin
any nuisance defined in this title.
Section 35, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 23, 41 Stat.
314, declared any person keeping or carrying liquor with intent to sell,
or soliciting orders for liquor guilty of a nuisance and restrainable by
injunction.
Section 36, act Oct. 29, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 23, 41 Stat.
314, set forth fees of officers removing and selling property in
enforcement of these provisions.
Section 37, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 23, 41 Stat.
314, provided that any violation upon any leased premises by the lessee
or occupant thereof could, at the option of the lessor, work a
forfeiture of lease.
Section 38, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 24, 41 Stat.
315, set forth procedure and punishment for violation of any injunction
granted pursuant to these provisions.
Section 39, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 25, 41 Stat.
315, prohibited unlawful possession of liquor or property designed for
manufacture thereof, and authorized issuance of search warrants and
destruction of unlawfully possessed liquor and property seized pursuant
to such search warrants.
Section 40, act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, title II, Sec. 26, 41 Stat.
315, set forth procedure for seizure and destruction of unlawfully
transported liquor and sale of any vehicle found to be used for such
transportation.
