[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 27, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 27CFR1.60]

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            TITLE 27--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND FIREARMS
 
 CHAPTER I--ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
                                TREASURY
 
  PART 1--BASIC PERMIT REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE FEDERAL ALCOHOL ADMINISTRATION ACT, NONINDUSTRIAL USE OF DISTILLED SPIRITS AND WINE, BULK SALES AND BOTTLING OF 
DISTILLED SPIRITS--Table of Contents
 
       Subpart D--Nonindustrial Use of Distilled Spirits and Wine
 
Sec. 1.60  Use of distilled spirits.

                       Uses Regarded as Industrial


    The following uses of distilled spirits are regarded as 
``industrial'' and will be excluded from any application of the term 
``nonindustrial use.'' The use of distilled spirits:
    (a) Free of tax by, and for the use of, the United States or any 
governmental agency thereof, any State, any political subdivision of a 
State, or the District of Columbia, for nonbeverage purposes; or
    (b) Free of tax for nonbeverage purposes and not for resale or use 
in the manufacture of any product for sale:
    (1) For the use of any educational organization described in 26 
U.S.C. 170(b)(1)(A)(ii) which is exempt from income tax under 26 U.S.C. 
501(a), or for the use of any scientific university or college of 
learning;
    (2) For any laboratory for use exclusively in scientific research;
    (3) For use at any hospital, blood bank, or sanitarium (including 
use in making analysis or test at such hospital, blood bank, or 
sanitarium), or at any pathological laboratory exclusively engaged in 
making analyses, or tests, for hospitals or sanitariums; or
    (4) For the use of any clinic operated for charity and not for 
profit (including use in compounding of bona fide medicines for 
treatment outside of such clinics of patients thereof); or
    (c) Free of tax, after denaturation of such spirits in the manner 
prescribed by law for:
    (1) Use in the manufacture of ether, chloroform, or other definite 
chemical substance where such distilled spirits are changed into some 
other chemical substance and do not appear in the finished product; or
    (2) Any other use in the arts and industries (except for uses 
prohibited by 26 U.S.C. 5273 (b) or (d)) and for fuel, light, and power.