§ 3-8-310 - Effect of voting for or against sale -- Penalty for unlawful sales.
3-8-310. Effect of voting for or against sale -- Penalty for unlawful sales.
(a) (1) Whenever a local option election shall be held in any county, city, town, district, or precinct in this state and a majority of the votes cast at the election shall be in favor of prohibiting the sale of liquor in the territory in which the election shall have been held, the law prohibiting the sale shall be in full force and effect at the expiration of sixty (60) days from the date of the entry of the certificate of the canvassing board in the record of the county court.
(2) After the expiration of sixty (60) days, no liquor license theretofore issued in the territory under the laws of this state shall be of any force or effect whatever, but the owner of the license shall be entitled to recover from the county, city, town, district, or precinct to which the license money was paid, the proportional part thereof as the unexpired period of license bears to the whole of the year.
(b) (1) Upon conviction, any person who shall sell, barter, or loan directly or indirectly any such liquors in the city, county, town, district, or precinct after sixty (60) days shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.
(2) Upon conviction, any person who knowingly furnishes or rents a house, room, wagon, or any conveyance or thing in which spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors are sold, bartered, or loaned, in violation of this act, shall be guilty of a violation and fined not less than sixty dollars ($60.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100). The house, wagon, vehicle, or other thing in which the liquors were sold, bartered, or loaned shall be liable for all fines adjudged against the person selling, bartering, or loaning the same.
(c) In the event that a majority of the votes cast at the election shall be in favor of the sale of liquors, then no license shall be granted to any person, firm, or corporation to sell such liquors in the territory until after the expiration of the aforesaid sixty (60) days, if the issuing of the liquor license was in that territory prohibited by law prior to the holding of the election.