[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: 27CFR46.164]

[Page 969]
 
            TITLE 27--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND FIREARMS
 
 CHAPTER I--ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
                                TREASURY
 
PART 46_MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND 
CIGARETTE PAPERS AND TUBES--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart G_Dealers in Tobacco Products
 
Sec. 46.164  Authority of ATF officers to enter premises.

    Any appropriate ATF officer may enter in the daytime any premises 
where tobacco products are kept or stored, so far as it may be necessary 
for the purpose of examining such products. 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 such products shall be 
liable to the penalties prescribed by law for the offense. Operators of 
vending machines shall make the tobacco products in their machines 
available for inspection upon the request of any appropriate ATF 
officer.

(68A Stat. 872, 903; 26 U.S.C. 7342, 7606)

[T.D. 6871, 31 FR 60, Jan. 4, 1966. Redesignated at 40 FR 16835, Apr. 
15, 1975 and amended by T.D. ATF-232, 51 FR 28092, Aug. 5, 1986; T.D. 
ATF-243, 51 FR 43194, Dec. 1, 1986; T.D. ATF-472, 67 FR 8881, Feb. 27, 
2002]