What happens to illegal liquor-making equipment and liquor

Any still, plant, or other equipment shown to have been used for the manufacture of liquor in violation of this chapter and any liquor manufactured or sold in violation of this chapter shall be subject to summary seizure as herein provided or to subsequent seizure, and may be condemned and adjudged forfeited to the State, in addition to any penalty separately provided for the violation, the same to be enforced by appropriate legal proceedings in the name of the State. All property and liquor condemned and forfeited pursuant to this section may be ordered by the court having jurisdiction to be wholly or partially destroyed or to be sold, wholly or partially, for the account of the county wherein the same were seized; provided that the court may order any of the liquor, if suitable, to be delivered to the department of health for distribution to any public institution for use therein for medicinal purposes. The order of the court with respect to property or liquor condemned and forfeited pursuant to this section shall be effectively executed by the sheriff or the sheriff's deputy, or by the chief of police or the chief of police's deputy, or by any police officer, or by the commission's administrator, or by any investigator, within the time as may be fixed in the order but not exceeding sixty days. If any person, whether or not an officer or employee of the State or any county, takes, disposes of, or uses, in any manner or to any extent, any of the property or liquor otherwise than as provided in this section, the person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided in section 281-102. [L Sp 1933, c 40, §70; RL 1935, §2638; RL 1945, §7290; RL 1955, §159-108; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §19; HRS §281-111; am L 1970, c 188, §39; gen ch 1985; am L 1989, c 211, §10; am L 1990, c 171, §38 and c 281, §11; am L 2020, c 70, §27]