Section 31-2-30

Sale, exchange, etc., of military property; seizure, etc., of illegally acquired military property.

The clothes, arms, accoutrements and military property of every character furnished by or through the state to any member of the armed forces of the state shall not be sold, bartered, loaned, exchanged, pledged or given away, and no person not a member of the armed forces of the state or the United States or a duly authorized agent of this state or the United States, who has possession of such clothes, arms, accoutrements and military equipment so furnished and which have been the subject of any such unlawful disposition shall have any right, title or interest thereof, but the same shall be seized and taken wherever found by any military officer of the state, and shall thereupon be delivered to any commanding officer or other officer authorized to receive the same, who shall make an immediate report to the Adjutant General. The possession of any such clothes, arms, accoutrements and military equipments by any person not a member of the armed forces of this state or any other state or the United States shall be presumptive evidence of such sale, barter, loan, exchange, pledge or gift.

(Acts 1936, Ex. Sess., No. 143, p. 105; Code 1940, T. 35, §29; Acts 1973, No. 1038, p. 1572, §30.)