§ 3-3-314 — Sale of confiscated beverages

(a) Immediately upon the expiration of thirty (30) days from the date of the first notice provided in § 3-3-312 , the mayor or the county judge, as the case may be, shall immediately notify licensed liquor wholesalers and retailers in the county, or, if the county is dry, then the licensed liquor wholesalers and retailers in the nearest wet county, that the contraband will be sold to the highest bidder and shall request all licensed liquor wholesalers and retailers to submit sealed bids. (b) No confiscated alcoholic beverages shall be sold at less than fifty percent (50%) of the retailers' selling price of such liquor as defined in Acts 1949, No. 282, § 4, as amended [repealed]. (c) In the event that alcoholic beverages are confiscated upon which the Arkansas tax has not been paid, the retailer or wholesaler buying the beverages is required to pay the tax. (d) All funds derived from the sale of the confiscated alcoholic beverages shall be deposited as follows: (1) Fifty percent (50%) in the general fund of the city or the county, as the case may be; and (2) Fifty percent (50%) thereof as general revenues in the State Treasury to the credit of the State Apportionment Fund. There the funds shall be allocated and distributed to the various funds, fund accounts, and accounts participating in general revenues in the respective proportions to each as provided by law and shall be used for the respective purposes set forth in the Revenue Stabilization Law, § 19-5-101 et seq. (e) The county or city officials are required to file a report at the end of each month with the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division showing the number of arrests, the amount of alcoholic beverages confiscated, and the amount of money collected from the sale of such beverages.

Legislative History

Acts 1947, No. 423, § 10, as added by Acts 1953, No. 118, § 36(D), as added by Acts 1971, No. 585, § 12; A.S.A. 1947, § 48-929.