# 27 CFR § 18.15: Right of entry and examination

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URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-27-18.15

## Section

- **Citation:** 27 CFR § 18.15
- **Heading:** Right of entry and examination
- **Jurisdiction:** Federal
- **Kind:** Regulations
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** September 22, 2026
- **Source:** Publisher's official text
- **Location:** Title 27—Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms > CHAPTER I—ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY > SUBCHAPTER A—ALCOHOL > PART 18—PRODUCTION OF VOLATILE FRUIT-FLAVOR CONCENTRATE > Subpart C—Administrative and Miscellaneous Provisions

## Text

Appropriate TTB officers may at all times, as well by night as by day, enter any concentrate plant to make examination of the materials, equipment, and facilities thereon; and make such gauges and inventories as they deem necessary. Whenever appropriate TTB officers, having demanded admittance and declared their name and office, are not admitted into such premises by the proprietor or other person having charge thereof, they may at all times use such force as is necessary for them to gain entry to such premises.
(Sec. 201, Pub. L. 85-859, 72 Stat. 1357, as amended, 1392, as amended (26 U.S.C. 5203, 5511))

## Nearby sections

- [27 CFR § 18.1 § 18.1 Scope.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-27-18.1.md)
- [27 CFR § 18.2 § 18.2 Applicability of law.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-27-18.2.md)
- [27 CFR § 18.3 § 18.3 Unlawful operations.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-27-18.3.md)
- [27 CFR § 18.11 § 18.11 Meaning of terms.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-27-18.11.md)
- [27 CFR § 18.12 § 18.12 Delegations of the Administrator.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-27-18.12.md)
- [27 CFR § 18.13 § 18.13 Alternate methods or procedures.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-27-18.13.md)
- [27 CFR § 18.14 § 18.14 Emergency variations from requirements.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-27-18.14.md)
- [27 CFR § 18.15 § 18.15 Right of entry and examination.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-27-18.15.md)
- [27 CFR § 18.16 § 18.16 Forms prescribed.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-27-18.16.md)
- [27 CFR § 18.21 § 18.21 General.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-27-18.21.md)
- [27 CFR § 18.22 § 18.22 Restrictions as to location and use.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-27-18.22.md)
- [27 CFR § 18.23 § 18.23 Registry of stills.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-27-18.23.md)
- [27 CFR § 18.51 § 18.51 Processing material.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-27-18.51.md)
- [27 CFR § 18.52 § 18.52 Production of high-proof concentrate.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-27-18.52.md)

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