26.18.030 Exceptions to Forfeiture

(a) No conveyance used by a person as a common carrier in the transaction of business as a common carrier is subject to forfeiture under the subsection unless it appears that the owner or other person in charge of the conveyance is a consenting party to or knowledgeable of a violation of this this title.

(b) No conveyance is subject to forfeiture under this subsection because of any act or omission established by the owner of the conveyance to have been committed or omitted without his/her knowledge or consent.

(c) A forfeiture of a conveyance encumbered by a bona fide security interest is subject to the interest of the secured party if he/she neither had knowledge of nor consented to any violation of this section.