No property rights shall exist in any person, natural or artificial, or be vested in them in any intoxicating liquors or intoxicating drinks prohibited by Chapter 31 of Title 97, Mississippi Code of 1972 or this chapter from being manufactured, or distilled, or sold, or possessed, nor shall any property rights exist in such persons of stills, fixtures, furniture, vehicles, automobiles or other motor-power means of transportation, or in boats, ships, or other water craft, or air-craft or any other articles, when such articles are being kept or used, directly or indirectly, as means and appliances to violate the provisions of said chapters, and all such things may be seized by any sheriff, or other lawful officer of this state and destroyed and rendered useless without any formal order of the court, and may be searched for and seized under the laws of this state. But all vehicles, conveyances, or other means of transportation above described, kept and used in handling of liquor or otherwise violating the provisions of said chapters may be first seized by such sheriff, or other lawful officer, who shall immediately make complaint under oath before the proper officer, or court, stating the facts connected with said seizure by him, giving the name or names of the person or persons found in possession or control of each article taken that was being used in transportation as well as the intoxicating liquors, or drinks and appliances or other articles seized and taken by him, and also giving the name of the owner of each article, if the same is known to him. Whereupon the said officer or court shall summon into his court all interested parties and may issue a writ of seizure, if said property, or any part of it is not in the possession of said officer, for the seizure of any of said property and the summoning of the interested parties into court, as in proceedings for the enforcement of purchase price liens against property.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 27 - Proceedings for Intoxicating Beverage Offenses
§ 99-27-1. Petition to subpoena witnesses having knowledge of violations
§ 99-27-3. Taking testimony and filing for delivery to grand jury
§ 99-27-5. Grand jury not prevented from making investigation
§ 99-27-7. Duty of mayor or justice of the peace to issue warrant for offender
§ 99-27-9. Statement not limited to proof of single violation at trial
§ 99-27-13. Owner may interpose claim to seized property; jurisdiction and procedure
§ 99-27-15. Affidavit for search warrant; contents of warrant; service and return
§ 99-27-17. Affidavit for search warrant; form
§ 99-27-19. Search warrant; form
§ 99-27-21. Search of motor vehicles, etc. and seizure of liquor without warrant
§ 99-27-23. Clubs, boats, places where liquor found may be abated as nuisance
§ 99-27-25. Club to forfeit charter; boat may be sold
§ 99-27-27. Common carriers, etc., required to produce books for examination
§ 99-27-35. Venue of prosecutions for unlawful shipment
§ 99-27-39. Payment by liquor dealers of penalty to state, county, or municipality
§ 99-27-41. Concurrent jurisdiction given chancery courts for enforcing § 99-27-39
§ 99-27-43. Justices of the peace not to suspend sentences
§ 99-27-45. Witnesses compelled to testify; disclosure not to be used against witness