§ 190. Oath; requirement; form; blanks

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.

1. 1920

   National Prohibition Act

   Pub. L. 66–85 § 33 · 41 Stat. 305

   Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 190

   (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 33, 41 Stat. 450.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 33, 41 Stat. 450.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 33. After February 1, 1920, the possession of liquors by any Illegal possession after February 1, 1920, evidence of intended violation. person not legally permitted under this title to possess liquor shall be prima facie evidence that such liquor is kept for the purpose of being sold, bartered, exchanged, given away, furnished, or otherwise disposed of in violation of the provisions of this title. Every person Report of liquors in possession. legally permitted under this title to have liquor shall report to the commissioner within ten days after the date when the eighteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States goes into effect, the kind and amount of intoxicating liquors in his possession. But In private dwellings for personal use excepted. it shall not be unlawful to possess liquors in one’s private dwelling while the same is occupied and used by him as his dwelling only and such liquor need not be reported, provided such liquors are for use only for the personal consumption of the owner thereof and his family residing in such dwelling and of his bona fide guests when entertained by him therein; and the burden of proof shall be upon the possessor Burden of proof on possessor. in any action concerning the same to prove that such liquor was lawfully acquired, possessed, and used.

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