[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 27, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 27CFR40.42]

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            TITLE 27--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND FIREARMS
 
 CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
                                TREASURY
 
PART 40--MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND CIGARETTE PAPERS AND TUBES--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart D--Administrative Provisions
 
Sec. 40.42  Authority of ATF officers to enter premises.

    Any ATF officer may enter in the daytime any premises where tobacco 
products are produced or kept, so far as it may be neccessary for the 
purpose of examining such products. When such premises are open at 
night, any ATF officer may enter them, while so open, in the performance 
of his official duties. The owner of such premises, or person having the 
superintendence of the same, who refuses to admit any ATF officer or 
permit him to examine such products shall be liable to the penalties 
prescribed by law for the offense.

(68A Stat. 872, 903; 26 U.S.C. 7342, 7606)

[T.D. 6871, 31 FR 33, Jan. 4, 1966. Redesignated at 40 FR 16835, Apr. 
15, 1975; T.D. ATF-232, 51 FR 28080, Aug. 5, 1986; T.D. ATF-243, 52 FR 
43194, Dec. 1, 1986]