SEALING OF CONVEYANCES
Proprietors of Distilled Spirits Plants and Others Concerned:
Purpose. This circular is issued to inform proprietors
of distilled spirits plants that an ATF ruling pertaining to
the sealing of conveyances used to transport spirits will be
published in the March issue of the Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms Bulletin. The ruling will read substantially as
follows:
Treasury Decision ATF-46 instituted changes in the
distilled spirits plant regulations prescribed in title 27,
Code of Federal Regulations, part 201. One of the changes
requires proprietors to seal conveyances of distilled spirits
with their own seals rather than rely upon ATF officers to
secure the conveyances with Government seals.
While seals affixed to outlet valves and manheads have
to be broken to effect the routine removal or loading of
spirits, there normally is no need to break seals which
secure hinge pins, valves, air vents, baffle plates, etc.
Therefore, in consideration of the materials and manpower
which would have to be expended to remove and replace all
seals each time a conveyance is put into use by a different
proprietor, it is held that those seals on a bulk conveyance
which remain intact from one shipment of distilled spirits
to another may be used repeatedly by the same or by dif-
ferent proprietors, provided the shipping document, e.g.,
ATF F 236, Transfer of Spirits or Denatured Spirits in
Bond, is marked with the serial number and unique identi-
fier of each intact seal previously affixed to the conveyance
as well as that of any seal affixed for the current shipment.
Inquiries. Inquiries concerning this circular should refer
to its number and be addressed to the Assistant Director
(Regulatory Enforcement), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC
20226.
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