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Maintaining public nuisance--penalty.

311.740. 1. Any room, house, building, boat, vehicle,structure or place of any kind where intoxicating liquor is sold,manufactured, kept for sale or bartered, in violation of this lawand all intoxicating liquors and all property kept and used inmaintaining such a place and any still, doubler, worm, worm tub,mash tub, fermenting tub, vessel, fixture or other property ofany kind or character used or fit for use in the production ormanufacture of intoxicating liquor is hereby declared to be apublic and common nuisance, and any person who maintains orassists in maintaining such public and common nuisance shall beguilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall befined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than onethousand dollars or by imprisonment for not less than thirty daysnor more than one year or both.

2. If a person has knowledge or reason to believe that hisproperty, real or personal, vehicle, boat or structure isoccupied or used for the manufacture, sale, storing, keeping orbartering of intoxicating liquor in violation of the provisionsof this law and suffers the same to be so used, or maintains orkeeps therein any still, doubler, worm, worm tub, mash tub,fermenting tub or fixture used or fit for use in the productionor manufacture of intoxicating liquor illegally, after suchknowledge or reason to believe, such property shall be subject toa lien for and may be sold to pay all fines and costs assessedagainst the occupant of such building or property for anyviolation of this law occurring after the passage thereof whichsaid lien shall attach from the time of filing of notice ofcommencement of the suit in the office where the records of thetransfer of real estate are kept and any such lien may beestablished and enforced by legal action instituted for thatpurpose in any court having jurisdiction.

3. Such lien shall be released upon final judgment assessingno fines or costs or by paying the final judgment assessing fineand cost.

(RSMo 1939 § 4943)

(1954) Place where intoxicating liquor was sold and in which immoral men congregated and engaged in such cursing, fighting and quarreling as to disturb others was properly padlocked and its use enjoined. State ex rel. Davenport v. Henry (A.), 270 S.W.2d 88.

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Missouri > T20 > C311 > 311_740

Maintaining public nuisance--penalty.

311.740. 1. Any room, house, building, boat, vehicle,structure or place of any kind where intoxicating liquor is sold,manufactured, kept for sale or bartered, in violation of this lawand all intoxicating liquors and all property kept and used inmaintaining such a place and any still, doubler, worm, worm tub,mash tub, fermenting tub, vessel, fixture or other property ofany kind or character used or fit for use in the production ormanufacture of intoxicating liquor is hereby declared to be apublic and common nuisance, and any person who maintains orassists in maintaining such public and common nuisance shall beguilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall befined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than onethousand dollars or by imprisonment for not less than thirty daysnor more than one year or both.

2. If a person has knowledge or reason to believe that hisproperty, real or personal, vehicle, boat or structure isoccupied or used for the manufacture, sale, storing, keeping orbartering of intoxicating liquor in violation of the provisionsof this law and suffers the same to be so used, or maintains orkeeps therein any still, doubler, worm, worm tub, mash tub,fermenting tub or fixture used or fit for use in the productionor manufacture of intoxicating liquor illegally, after suchknowledge or reason to believe, such property shall be subject toa lien for and may be sold to pay all fines and costs assessedagainst the occupant of such building or property for anyviolation of this law occurring after the passage thereof whichsaid lien shall attach from the time of filing of notice ofcommencement of the suit in the office where the records of thetransfer of real estate are kept and any such lien may beestablished and enforced by legal action instituted for thatpurpose in any court having jurisdiction.

3. Such lien shall be released upon final judgment assessingno fines or costs or by paying the final judgment assessing fineand cost.

(RSMo 1939 § 4943)

(1954) Place where intoxicating liquor was sold and in which immoral men congregated and engaged in such cursing, fighting and quarreling as to disturb others was properly padlocked and its use enjoined. State ex rel. Davenport v. Henry (A.), 270 S.W.2d 88.


State Codes and Statutes

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Missouri > T20 > C311 > 311_740

Maintaining public nuisance--penalty.

311.740. 1. Any room, house, building, boat, vehicle,structure or place of any kind where intoxicating liquor is sold,manufactured, kept for sale or bartered, in violation of this lawand all intoxicating liquors and all property kept and used inmaintaining such a place and any still, doubler, worm, worm tub,mash tub, fermenting tub, vessel, fixture or other property ofany kind or character used or fit for use in the production ormanufacture of intoxicating liquor is hereby declared to be apublic and common nuisance, and any person who maintains orassists in maintaining such public and common nuisance shall beguilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall befined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than onethousand dollars or by imprisonment for not less than thirty daysnor more than one year or both.

2. If a person has knowledge or reason to believe that hisproperty, real or personal, vehicle, boat or structure isoccupied or used for the manufacture, sale, storing, keeping orbartering of intoxicating liquor in violation of the provisionsof this law and suffers the same to be so used, or maintains orkeeps therein any still, doubler, worm, worm tub, mash tub,fermenting tub or fixture used or fit for use in the productionor manufacture of intoxicating liquor illegally, after suchknowledge or reason to believe, such property shall be subject toa lien for and may be sold to pay all fines and costs assessedagainst the occupant of such building or property for anyviolation of this law occurring after the passage thereof whichsaid lien shall attach from the time of filing of notice ofcommencement of the suit in the office where the records of thetransfer of real estate are kept and any such lien may beestablished and enforced by legal action instituted for thatpurpose in any court having jurisdiction.

3. Such lien shall be released upon final judgment assessingno fines or costs or by paying the final judgment assessing fineand cost.

(RSMo 1939 § 4943)

(1954) Place where intoxicating liquor was sold and in which immoral men congregated and engaged in such cursing, fighting and quarreling as to disturb others was properly padlocked and its use enjoined. State ex rel. Davenport v. Henry (A.), 270 S.W.2d 88.