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[CITE: 26USC5683]

 
                     TITLE 26--INTERNAL REVENUE CODE
 
      Subtitle E--Alcohol, Tobacco, and Certain Other Excise Taxes
 
             CHAPTER 51--DISTILLED SPIRITS, WINES, AND BEER
 
 Subchapter J--Penalties, Seizures, and Forfeitures Relating to Liquors
 
 PART IV--PENALTY, SEIZURE, AND FORFEITURE PROVISIONS COMMON TO LIQUORS
 
Sec. 5683. Penalty and forfeiture for removal of liquors under 
        improper brands
        
    Whenever any person ships, transports, or removes any distilled 
spirits, wines, or beer, under any other than the proper name or brand 
known to the trade as designating the kind and quality of the contents 
of the casks or packages containing the same, or causes such act to be 
done, he shall be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more 
than 1 year, or both, and shall forfeit such distilled spirits, wines, 
or beer, and casks or packages.

(Added Pub. L. 85-859, title II, Sec. 201, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 
1410.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 5683, act Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 699, 
consisted of provisions similar to those comprising this section, prior 
to the general revision of this chapter by Pub. L. 85-859.
