Where any person claims an interest in any liquor seized in accordance with this part, the court shall hear and determine the question of the right of such person so claiming an interest in such liquors; but no person shall be deemed to have any property right in any intoxicating liquors transported, received, or possessed in violation of the laws of this state; and if the court, upon the hearing of any petition alleging ownership of, or an interest in intoxicating liquors, shall ascertain that the same have been received, transported or possessed in violation of any law of this state, the court shall direct the sale or destruction thereof by the sheriff as set out in §§57-9-115 —57-9-119.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Title 57 - Intoxicating Liquors
§ 57-9-101. Destruction of Liquor and Paraphernalia
§ 57-9-102. Arrest of Persons Implicated in Manufacture
§ 57-9-103. Officers to Take Into Possession Intoxicating Liquors Held or Transported Illegally
§ 57-9-104. Officers to File Written Statement About Intoxicants Taken
§ 57-9-105. Court Having Jurisdiction
§ 57-9-106. Delivery of Seized Liquor to Sheriff
§ 57-9-107. Sheriff to Keep Intoxicants Until Otherwise Ordered by Court
§ 57-9-108. Sheriff's Statement of Intoxicants Held
§ 57-9-110. Notice When Name of Owner Unknown
§ 57-9-111. Claimants of Liquor — Petition
§ 57-9-112. Answer to Petition Claiming Ownership
§ 57-9-113. Petition Claiming Ownership Tried in Summary Manner
§ 57-9-114. Determination of Claims to Liquor
§ 57-9-117. Disposition of Liquor Bearing No Federal Tax Stamp — Destruction of Spoiled Liquor
§ 57-9-118. Sheriff's Inventory to Facilitate Credit to Proper Jurisdiction