417.270. Penalty for violation.

Penalty for violation.

417.270. Whoever fills with a liquid any vessel so marked ordistinguished as aforesaid, the description of which has beenfiled and published as provided in section 417.250, with intentto sell the said liquid in the said vessel, or sells, buys,gives, takes, uses or otherwise disposes of or traffics in anysaid vessel or any part thereof, without the written consent of,or unless the same has been purchased from, the person whose nameis in or upon the vessel so filled, trafficked in, or otherwiseused or disposed of, shall, on conviction, be adjudged guilty ofa misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not less than fifty centsnor more than five dollars for each such vessel, or byimprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fineand imprisonment.

(RSMo 1939 § 15473, A.L. 1955 p. 847)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 14349; 1919 § 13283