[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: 27CFR45.23]

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            TITLE 27--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND FIREARMS
 
 CHAPTER I--ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
                                TREASURY
 
PART 45--REMOVAL OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND CIGARETTE PAPERS AND TUBES, WITHOUT PAYMENT OF TAX, FOR USE OF THE UNITED STATES--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart C--Administrative Provisions
 
Sec. 45.23  Authority of appropriate ATF officers to enter premises.

    Any appropriate ATF officer may enter in the daytime any premises 
where tobacco products, or cigarette papers or tubes removed under this 
part are kept, so far as it may be necessary for the purpose of 
examining such articles. When such premises are open at night, any 
appropriate 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 
appropriate ATF officer or permit him to examine the articles removed 
under this part 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 57, Jan. 4, 1966. Redesignated at 40 FR 16835, Apr. 
15, 1975, and amended by T.D. ATF-232, 51 FR 28090, Aug. 5, 1986; T.D. 
ATF-243, 51 FR 43194, Dec. 1, 1986; T.D. ATF-472, 67 FR 8880, Feb. 27, 
2002]