Statute 55-516: Violations; vehicles and fuels declared nuisances and
contraband; confiscation; liens.
All motor fuels and other liquid fuels which are
transported or
carried on the public highways into, within or across this state in
violation of any of the motor-fuel tax or liquid-fuel laws of this state,
or without such laws or the rules and regulations of the director of
taxation having been complied with as to such transportation or carriage,
and all motor trucks and other vehicles and all containers and other
property used in the transportation of motor fuels or
other liquid
fuels upon or over the highways of this state in violation of or without
compliance with the motor-fuel tax or liquid-fuel
laws of this
state, or such rules and regulations, are hereby declared to be common
nuisances and contraband, and shall be seized, confiscated and sold in the
same manner and under the same procedure as regards complaint, warrant,
seizure, notice, answer, trial, judgment, order or sale, sale and appeal as
is now provided by law in the case of automobiles and other property used
in the transportation or carrying of intoxicating liquors into this state
or from one place to another within this state, and the interest of all
parties in such motor fuels and other liquid fuels, and
all such
motor trucks and motor vehicles and containers shall be determined and
concluded as is now provided in the case of parties having or claiming any
interest in intoxicating liquors and automobiles, vehicles and other
property used in transporting all intoxicating liquors, but such seizure
and sale shall not defeat any bona fide lien given upon any motor vehicle
to any dealer for the purchase price thereof, which lien attached prior to
the time of such seizure; and such motor vehicle shall be sold subject to
any such lien, provided the same is disclosed at the time of sale.
History: L. 1933, ch. 292, § 11;
L. 1995, ch. 262, § 20; July 1.