Penalties relating to marks, brands, and containers
United States Code
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- 2001United States v. Fair 6th Cir.
- 1987United States v. Shilling 4th Cir.
- 1979Moore v. United States 5th Cir.
- 1975United States v. McCoy 6th Cir.
- 1974United States v. Hall 3d Cir.
- 1973United States v. Kilpatrick 6th Cir.
- 1973United States v. Summerville 5th Cir.
- 1973United States v. Averitt 6th Cir.
- 1973United States v. Eddings 6th Cir.
- 1973United States v. Ambrose 6th Cir.
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transport, possess, buy, sell, or transfer any distilled spirits unless the immediate container bears the type of closure or other device required by section 5301(d), with intent to defraud the United States, empty a container bearing the closure or other device required by section 5301(d) without breaking such closure or other device, empty, or cause to be emptied, any distilled spirits from an immediate container bearing any mark or brand required by law without effacing and obliterating such mark or brand as required by section 5206(d), place any distilled spirits in any bottle, or reuse any bottle for the purpose of containing distilled spirits, which has once been filled and fitted with a closure or other device under the provisions of this chapter, without removing and destroying such closure or other device, willfully and unlawfully remove, change, or deface any mark, brand, label, or seal affixed to any case of distilled spirits, or to any bottle contained therein, with intent to defraud the United States, purchase, sell, receive with intent to transport, or transport any empty cask or package having thereon any mark or brand required by law to be affixed to any cask or package containing distilled spirits, or change or alter any mark or brand on any cask or package containing distilled spirits, or put into any cask or package spirits of greater strength than is indicated by the inspection mark thereon, or fraudulently use any cask or package having any inspection mark thereon, for the purpose of selling other spirits, or spirits of quantity or quality different from the spirits previously inspected, For provisions relating to the authority of internal revenue officers to enforce provisions of this section, see sections 5203, 5557, and 7608. Any person who shall— (Source: (Added Pub. L. 85–859, title II, § 201, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1401; amended Pub. L. 96–39, title VIII, § 807(a)(53), July 26, 1979, 93 Stat. 289; Pub. L. 98–369, div. A, title IV, § 454(c)(11)(A), July 18, 1984, 98 Stat. 821.))