suffered' the illegal use of the property.”). 19 . Many state statutes, while permitting seizure of forfeitable property, are much more explicit than N.Y.C.Code § 14-140 in limiting or exempting the forfeiture liability of innocent owners. These statutes generally provide for affirmative defenses by innocent owners or make proof of the owners' culpable knowledge part of the seizing authority's burden. For example, a Maine statute that permits forfeiture of a motor vehicle upon a defendant’s simultaneous conviction for operating under the influence (“OUI”) and operating after suspension for a prior OUI conviction, requires that the defendant be the "sole owner-operator of that vehicle.” Me.Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 29-A, § 2421(1); see also State v. One Blue Corvette, 732 A.2d 856 (Me.1999) (<HOLDING>). Other state statutes contain express
holding a stop was effected where officers vehicle blocked defendants vehicle from proceeding holding automobile exeeption did not apply to warrantless search of vehicle where vehicle was not readily mobile because the vehicle was legally parked in parking lot occupants of vehicle were seated on a bench in the playground near the parking lot police officers surrounded the vehicle and the driver of the vehicle was handcuffed for safety purposes holding that the statutory definition of motor vehicle is not controlling holding that after making an arrest of the driver of a vehicle the police may search the passenger compartment of the vehicle holding that the statutory requirement that defendant be the sole owneroperator of that vehicle precluded forfeiture of a vehicle jointly owned by defendants wife