Maintaining public nuisance
This law is about places where alcohol is sold or made illegally. Any place, building, vehicle, or equipment used to illegally sell or make alcohol is called a 'public nuisance.' Someone who runs or helps run such a place can be fined between $100 and $1,000, put in jail for 30 days to one year, or both. If a property owner knows their property is being used to illegally sell or make alcohol and lets it continue, that property can be seized and sold to pay any fines and court costs that result.
311.740. Maintaining — . — 1. Any room, house, building, boat, vehicle, structure or place of any kind where is sold, d, kept for sale or bartered, in violation of this law and all and all property kept and used in maintaining such a place and any , , , , , , , fixture or other property of any kind or character used or fit for use in the production or manufacture of intoxicating liquor is hereby declared to be a , and any person who maintains or assists in maintaining such public and common nuisance shall be guilty of a and upon thereof shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not less than thirty days nor more than one year or both.
2. If a person has knowledge or reason to believe that his property, real or personal, vehicle, boat or structure is occupied or used for the manufacture, sale, storing, keeping or of intoxicating liquor in violation of the of this law and the same to be so used, or maintains or keeps therein any still, doubler, worm, worm tub, mash tub, fermenting tub or fixture used or fit for use in the production or manufacture of intoxicating liquor illegally, after such knowledge or reason to believe, such property shall be subject to a for and may be sold to pay all fines and costs assessed against the occupant of such building or property for any violation of this law occurring after the passage thereof which said lien shall attach from the time of of notice of of the suit in the office where the records of the of are kept and any such lien may be established and enforced by legal instituted for that purpose in any court having .
3. Such lien shall be released upon assessing no fines or costs or by paying the final judgment assessing fine and 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 . State ex rel. Davenport v. Henry (A.), 270 S.W.2d 88.
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