Delivery of seized liquor to sheriff

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TN Code › Title 57 › Chapter 9 › Section 57-9-106

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Every officer, other than the sheriff, taking into possession intoxicating liquors as provided for in § 57-9-103 , shall within five (5) days after so doing, deliver the intoxicating liquors to the sheriff of the county wherein the same was taken into possession, and the sheriff shall execute to the officer a receipt for same in writing showing the kind and quantity of intoxicating liquors so delivered, and the name or names of the person from whom the intoxicating liquors were taken, if such name be known to the officer. Acts 1919, ch. 50, § 3; Shan. Supp., § 6798a19b3; Code 1932, § 11226; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 57-607.

Every officer, other than the sheriff, taking into possession intoxicating liquors as provided for in § 57-9-103 , shall within five (5) days after so doing, deliver the intoxicating liquors to the sheriff of the county wherein the same was taken into possession, and the sheriff shall execute to the officer a receipt for same in writing showing the kind and quantity of intoxicating liquors so delivered, and the name or names of the person from whom the intoxicating liquors were taken, if such name be known to the officer.

Acts 1919, ch. 50, § 3; Shan. Supp., § 6798a19b3; Code 1932, § 11226; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 57-607.

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