No person who sells, or offers for sale, distilled spirits, or agent or employee of such person, shall:
    
    
        
        (a) 
         Possess any liquor bottle in which any distilled spirits have been placed in violation of the provisions of  § 31.201; or
     
    
        
        (b) 
         Possess any liquor bottle, any portion of the contents of which has been altered or increased in violation of the provisions of  § 31.201.
     
    
        
            Code of Federal Regulations
        
        (
                26 U.S.C. 5301
            )