If city police officers seize:
(A) Any apparatus, equipment, vehicle, or instrumentality used for or intended for use in manufacturing or transporting any alcoholic beverages in violation of the state alcoholic beverage control laws; or
(B) Any alcoholic beverages possessed, sold, transported, manufactured, kept, or stored in violation of the state alcoholic beverage control laws, and if the court finds from a preponderance of the evidence that the property seized was lawfully subject to seizure, then the court shall render judgment accordingly and order the property forfeited to the city in which the seizure of the property took place. The seized property shall be sold by the City Manager, after giving ten days notice by one publication in a legal newspaper of the county at least ten days before such sale. Appeal from such an order may be taken as in civil cases. When such property is sold under the provisions of this section, the proceeds thereof shall be distributed as follows:
(1) First, to the payment of the costs of the case in which the order of forfeiture was made and the actual expenses of preserving the property; and
(2) Second, the remainder shall be deposited with the city.
(Prior Code, § 33.23)
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see 37A O.S. §§ 5-101 et seq.