[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 27, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 27CFR275.23]

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            TITLE 27--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND FIREARMS
 
 CHAPTER I--ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
                          TREASURY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 275--IMPORTATION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND CIGARETTE PAPERS AND TUBES--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart C--General
 
Sec. 275.23  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 40, Jan. 4, 1966. Redesignated at 40 FR 16835, Apr. 
15, 1975, and amended by T.D. ATF-232, 51 FR 28084, Aug. 5, 1986; T.D. 
ATF-243, 51 FR 43194, Dec. 1, 1986]