Title 27 — Intoxicating Liquors
Chapter 6 — Transportation in Interstate Commerce
§ 122. Shipments into States for possession or sale in violation of State law
Statutory text
The shipment or transportation, in any manner or by any means whatsoever, of any spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented, or other intoxicating liquor of any kind, from one State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, into any other State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or from any foreign country into any State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, which said spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented, or other intoxicating liquor is intended, by any person interested therein, to be received, possessed, sold, or in any manner used, either in the original package or otherwise, in violation of any law of such State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, is prohibited.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Liquor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act
Pub. L. 74–740 § 202(b) · 49 Stat. 872
Enacted · 27 U.S.C. § 122
(Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 740, § 202(b), 49 Stat. 877.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 740, § 202(b), 49 Stat. 877.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(b) The shipment or transportation, in any manner or by any Shipment of intoxicating liquor into State in violation of its laws, prohibited. Vol. 37, p. 699; U. S. C., p. 1223. means whatsoever, of any spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented, or other intoxicating liquor of any kind, from one State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, into any other State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or from any foreign country into any State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place non-contiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, which said spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented, or other intoxicating liquor is intended, by any person interested therein, to be received, possessed, sold, or in any manner used, either in the original package or otherwise, in violation of any law of such State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, is hereby prohibited.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in the act of Mar. 1, 1913, ch. 90, § 1, 37 Stat. 699.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
Act , is popularly known as the “Webb-Kenyon Act”.
Credits
(Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 740, § 202(b), 49 Stat. 877.)