41-405. Enforcement of warehouse provisions.
The director is hereby authorized to measure, gauge or check such alcoholic liquor in bond in any bonded warehouse, and if the amount of liquor on hand does not correspond with the reports of the manufacturer or distributor filed with the director, the proprietor of such warehouse shall have the proprietor's license revoked, and in addition thereto shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $5,000 or be imprisoned in the custody of the secretary of corrections not exceeding 10 years. Any storekeeper, inspector or other person in the employ of the director having charge of such bonded liquor warehouse who removes or allows to be removed any cask or other package of such liquor, except on order or permit from the director, or which has not been marked or consigned as provided by law, or who removes or allows to be removed any part of the contents of any cask or package of liquor deposited therein, shall be immediately dismissed from office or employment, and in addition thereto shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined for each offense not exceeding $1,000, and shall be imprisoned in the custody of the secretary of corrections not more than three years.
History: L. 1949, ch. 242, § 48; L. 1990, ch. 309, § 29; L. 1993, ch. 20, § 5; July 1.