[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: 27CFR40.44]

[Page 760-761]
 
            TITLE 27--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND FIREARMS
 
 CHAPTER I--ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
                                TREASURY
 
PART 40--MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND CIGARETTE PAPERS AND TUBES--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart D--Administrative Provisions
 
Sec. 40.44  Disposal of forfeited, condemned, and abandoned tobacco products.

    A Federal, State, or local officer shall not sell or cause to be 
sold for consumption in the United States any forfeited, condemned, or 
abandoned tobacco products in his custody upon which the Federal tax has 
not been paid, if in his opinion the sale thereof will not bring a price 
equal to the tax due and payable thereon and the expenses incident to 
the sale thereof. Where the products are not sold the officer may 
deliver them to a Federal or State hospital or institution (if they are 
fit for consumption) or cause their destruction by burning completely or 
by rendering them unfit for consumption. Where such products are sold 
they shall be released by the officer having custody thereof only after 
they are properly packaged and taxpaid. A receipt from the regional 
director (compliance) evidencing payment of tax on such products shall 
be presented to the officer having custody of the products, which tax 
shall be considered part of the sales price. Where tobacco products 
which have been packaged under the

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provisions of part 44 or part 45 of this chapter are to be released 
after payment of tax, the purchaser shall appropriately mark each 
package ``Federal Tax Paid (date)'' before the officer having custody of 
the products releases them:

Provided, That if the purchaser is a qualified manufacturer of tobacco 
products, or for products packaged under part 44 a qualified export 
warehouse proprietor, the products may be released without such marking 
of the packages if the manufacturer or proprietor does not intend to 
place such products on the domestic market for taxable products but will 
dispose of them otherwise, such as by destruction or return to bond 
through claim for refund, and files a written statement to that effect, 
in original only, with the officer having custody of the products. In 
the case of products forfeited under the internal revenue laws the sale 
shall be subject to the provisions of part 172 of this chapter.

(68A Stat. 870, as amended, 72 Stat. 1425, as amended; 26 U.S.C. 7325, 
5753)

[T.D. 6961, 33 FR 9488, June 28, 1968. Redesignated at 40 FR 16835, Apr. 
15, 1975, and amended by T.D. ATF-232, 51 FR 28080, Aug. 5, 1986; T.D. 
ATF-243, 52 FR 43194, Dec. 1, 1986; T.D. ATF-251, 52 FR 19339, May 22, 
1987; T.D. ATF-469, 66 FR 56758, Nov. 13, 2001]