[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 27, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 27CFR17.107]

[Page 287-288]
 
            TITLE 27--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND FIREARMS
 
 CHAPTER I--ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
                                TREASURY
 
PART 17_DRAWBACK ON TAXPAID DISTILLED SPIRITS USED IN MANUFACTURING 
NONBEVERAGE PRODUCTS--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart E_Bonds and Consents of Sureties
 
Sec. 17.107  Strengthening bonds.

    Whenever the amount of a bond on file and in effect becomes 
insufficient, the principal may give a strengthening bond in a 
sufficient amount, provided the surety is the same as on the bond 
already on file and in effect; otherwise a superseding bond covering the 
entire liability shall be filed. Strengthening

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bonds, filed to increase the bond liability of the surety, shall not be 
construed in any sense to be substitute bonds, and the appropriate ATF 
officer shall not approve a strengthening bond containing any notation 
which may be interpreted as a release of any former bond or as limiting 
the amount of either bond to less than its full amount.