Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code Title 4, Chapter 103 - Illicit Beverages

• Texas Section 103.01 - Illicit Beverages Prohibited
  No person may possess, manufacture, transport, or sell an illicit beverage. Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 505, ch. 194, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.
• Texas Section 103.02 - Equipment Or Material For Manufacture Of Illicit Beverages
  No person may possess equipment or material designed for, capable of use for, or used in manufacturing an illicit beverage. Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p....
• Texas Section 103.03 - Seizure Of Illicit Beverages, Etc
  A peace officer may seize without a warrant: (1) any illicit beverage, its container, and its packaging; (2) any vehicle, including an aircraft or watercraft,...
• Texas Section 103.04 - Arrest Of Person In Possession
  A peace officer may arrest without a warrant any person found in possession of: (1) an illicit beverage; (2) any equipment designed for use in...
• Texas Section 103.05 - Report Of Seizure
  (a) A peace officer who makes a seizure under Section 103.03 of this code shall make a report in triplicate which lists each item seized...
• Texas Section 103.06 - Beverage Delivered To Commission
  Any alcoholic beverage, its container, and its packaging which has been seized by a peace officer, as provided in Section 103.03 of this code, may...
• Texas Section 103.07 - Beverage Of Illicit Manufacture Or Unfit For Consumption
  (a) The commission may not sell alcoholic beverages seized by a peace officer, as provided in Section 103.03, that are unfit for public consumption or...
• Texas Section 103.08 - Sale Of Beer
  (a) Any beer, its container, or its packaging which is seized under the terms of this chapter shall be disposed of in accordance with this...
• Texas Section 103.09 - Sale Of Liquor
  (a) Any liquor, its container, or its packaging which is seized under the terms of this chapter shall be disposed of in accordance with this...
• Texas Section 103.10 - Exercise Of Discretion In Case Of Mistake
  The preceding sections of this subchapter shall not be construed as preventing the commission from exercising its discretion if illicit alcoholic beverages are seized as...
• Texas Section 103.11 - Proceeds From Sale
  (a) The proceeds from the sale of seized alcoholic beverages, their containers, and their packaging shall be placed in escrow in a suspense account established...
• Texas Section 103.12 - Ceiling Prices During Emergency
  If the federal government provides a method by which illicit alcoholic beverages or other property belonging to or forfeited to the state is sold at...
• Texas Section 103.13 - Bonding Of Seized Vehicles Pending Suit
  Any person with an ownership or a security interest in a vehicle that has been seized under Section 103.03 may recover possession of the vehicle...
• Texas Section 103.14 - Institution Of Suit For Forfeiture
  (a) The attorney general or the county or district attorney in the county in which a seizure is made shall institute a suit for forfeiture...
• Texas Section 103.15 - Notice Of Forfeiture Suit
  (a) Notice of the pendency of a suit for forfeiture under this chapter shall be served in the manner prescribed by law on any person...
• Texas Section 103.16 - Forfeiture Of A Seized Vehicle
  (a) In a suit for forfeiture of a vehicle seized under Section 103.03 of this code, the state shall have the burden of proving that...
• Texas Section 103.17 - Forfeiture Of Other Seized Property
  (a) In any suit for forfeiture of proceeds in escrow from a sale of illicit beverages or of property other than vehicles, or both, seized...
• Texas Section 103.18 - Intervention By Secured Creditors
  (a) In any suit for forfeiture of proceeds in escrow from any sale of illicit beverages or of property other than vehicles, or both, seized...
• Texas Section 103.19 - Transfer Of Security Interests
  All security interests in property sold under this chapter shall be transferred to the proceeds of the sale. Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 509, ch....
• Texas Section 103.20 - Disposition Of Forfeited Property
  (a) The commission may sell property, other than proceeds in escrow, forfeited to the state at a public or private sale in the manner the...
• Texas Section 103.21 - Bill Of Sale To Purchaser
  When executing a sale under this chapter, the commission or the sheriff or constable shall issue a bill of sale to each purchaser of property....
• Texas Section 103.22 - Costs Of Forfeiture Suits
  The commission is entitled to recover from the proceeds of a forfeiture sale all costs of a forfeiture suit brought under this chapter, including: (1)...
• Texas Section 103.23 - Allocation Of Proceeds Of Sale
  Proceeds from a forfeiture sale and proceeds in escrow which are forfeited to the state in a forfeiture suit shall be disposed of by depositing...

Last modified: September 28, 2016