[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: 27CFR44.70]

[Page 794]
 
            TITLE 27--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND FIREARMS
 
 CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
                                TREASURY
 
PART 44--EXPORTATION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND CIGARETTE PAPERS AND TUBES, WITHOUT PAYMENT OF TAX, OR WITH DRAWBACK OF TAX--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart C--General
 
Sec. 44.70  Authority of ATF officers to enter premises.

    Any ATF officer may enter in the daytime any premises where tobacco 
products, or cigarette papers or tubes are produced or kept, so far as 
it may be necessary for the purpose of examining such articles. 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 articles 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 49, Jan. 4, 1966. Redesignated at 40 FR 16835, Apr. 
15, 1975, and amended by T.D. ATF-232, 51 FR 28088, Aug. 5, 1986; T.D. 
ATF-243, 51 FR 43194, Dec. 1, 1986]