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California Code, Public Resources Code - PRC § 4442.5

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(a) It is the duty of all sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of the different counties of the state and the police officers of each incorporated city and town to search for, seize and capture all illicit distilleries, stills and worms, distilling and fermenting equipment and apparatus and other paraphernalia connected therewith, or used or to be used in the illicit manufacture of intoxicating liquors;  raw materials and substances connected with or to be used in the illicit manufacture of intoxicating liquors;  and containers connected with or used in the packaging of illicitly manufactured intoxicating liquors.

(b) It is the duty of such officer or officers to destroy any and all whiskey, beer, or other intoxicants found at or near such distilleries or stills except with respect to intoxicating liquors upon which federal tax has been paid as provided in § 57-9-115.

(c) It is the duty of such officer or officers capturing such distilleries, stills, distilling and fermenting equipment and apparatus and other paraphernalia, to summarily destroy and render useless such property.  Any intoxicants or other articles of personal property destroyed under authority of this section shall be destroyed in the presence of at least two (2) credible witnesses.  Within five (5) days after such destruction, the officer destroying such intoxicants or other articles shall file a written statement, listing all items destroyed, signed by the officer destroying and the witness or witnesses thereto, with the circuit or criminal court clerk of the county where seized and, in addition, shall file a copy thereof with the alcoholic beverage commission.

(d) The reference to sheriffs and deputy sheriffs in this section shall also include constables in counties of this state having a population of:

not less than

nor more than

  3,700

  4,700

  6,000

  7,800

  8,400

  8,500

  8,535

  8,540

  9,200

  9,570

 10,770

 10,780

 11,512

 11,550

 11,700

 11,900

 12,000

 13,000

 14,500

 14,600

 15,300

 15,500

 15,750

 16,000

 17,000

 17,350

 18,000

 18,200

 18,300

 18,900

 19,000

 19,100

 21,000

 21,500

 21,600

 22,300

 23,200

 23,350

 23,355

 23,391

 23,391

 23,450

 23,500

 23,750

 24,000

 24,255

 25,600

 27,500

 27,900

 28,000

 28,555

 28,600

 29,250

 31,250

 31,260

 33,000

 33,700

 34,000

 35,480

 41,800

 41,900

 50,000

 57,550

 59,400

 59,500

 60,050

 60,600

 62,000

 64,000

 65,000

101,000

118,400

118,700

200,000

according to the 1960 federal census or any subsequent federal census, and Fentress County and Hamblen County.

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