[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 27, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
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[CITE: 27CFR5.31]

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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 5_LABELING AND ADVERTISING OF DISTILLED SPIRITS--Table of Contents
 
          Subpart D_Labeling Requirements for Distilled Spirits
 
Sec. 5.31  General.


    (a) Application. No person engaged in business as a distiller, 
rectifier, importer, wholesaler, or warehouseman and bottler, directly 
or indirectly, or through an affiliate, shall sell or ship or deliver 
for sale or shipment or otherwise introduce in interstate or foreign 
commerce, or receive therein, or remove from customs custody, any 
distilled spirits in bottles, unless such bottles are marked, branded, 
labeled, or packaged, in conformity with Sec. Sec. 5.31 through 5.42.
    (b) Alteration of labels. It shall be unlawful for any person to 
alter, mutilate, destroy, obliterate, or remove any mark, brand, or 
label on distilled spirits held for sale in interstate or foreign 
commerce or after shipment therein, except:
    (1) As authorized by Federal law;
    (2) When an additional labeling or relabeling of bottled distilled 
spirits is accomplished with labels covered by certificates of label 
approval which comply with the requirements of this part and with State 
law;
    (3) That there may be added to the bottle, after removal from 
customs custody, or prior to or after removal from bonded premises, 
without application for permission to relabel, a label identifying the 
wholesale or retail distributor thereof or identifying the purchaser or 
consumer, and containing no references whatever to the characteristics 
of the product.

(26 U.S.C. 7805 (68A Stat. 917, as amended); 27 U.S.C. 205 (49 Stat. 
981, as amended))

[T.D. 7020, 34 FR 20637, Dec. 30, 1969, as amended by T.D. ATF-62, 44 FR 
71621, Dec. 11, 1979; T.D. ATF-198, 50 FR 8464, Mar. 1, 1985]