Section 28-3-227 Removal, restoration, etc., for use or reuse, unauthorized sale, etc., of revenue, etc., stamps, crowns or lids.
Section 28-3-227
Removal, restoration, etc., for use or reuse, unauthorized sale, etc., of revenue, etc., stamps, crowns or lids.
Whoever removes or otherwise prepares any Alabama revenue stamps, crowns or lids or stamps, crowns or lids used to identify alcoholic beverages sold or distributed by state liquor stores with intent to use or cause the same to be used after they have already been used or buys, sells, offers for sale or gives away any such washed or removed and restored stamps, crowns or lids to any person for using or who used the same or has in his possession any washed or restored or removed or altered stamp, crown or lid for the purpose of indicating the payment of any tax provided for in this chapter or reuses any stamp, crown or lid which has heretofore been used for the purpose of paying any tax provided in this chapter or identifying any articles enumerated and defined in this chapter or whoever, except the board or persons, firms, corporations or associations of persons designated and bonded by the board, sells any Alabama revenue stamps, crowns or lids not affixed to taxable alcoholic beverages as provided in this chapter, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than a year and a day, nor more than five years, and in addition may be fined not less than $1,000.00, nor more than $5,000.00.
(Acts 1936-37, Ex. Sess., No. 66, p. 40; Code 1940, T. 29, §63.)