---
kind: "section"
citation: "27 C.F.R. § 19.389"
title: "27"
number: "19.389"
heading: "Filling containers from tanks."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/27/19.389"
---

# §19.389. Filling containers from tanks.

- (a) **Filling portable containers.** A proprietor may fill portable containers with denatured spirits from tanks on the bonded premises.
- (b) **Accounting for denatured spirits in filling operations.** In performing filling operations under [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section, a proprietor must:
  - (1) Gauge the denatured spirits remaining in the tanks at the end of each filling operation;
  - (2) Maintain a record of each gauge and document the quantity of denatured spirits drawn from the tank during each filling operation; and
  - (3) **Make a record of any spirits lost during the filling operation.**
- (c) **Gauging requirements.** The provisions of § [19.289(a)](/cfr/27/19.289.md?p=a) and [(c)](/cfr/27/19.289.md?p=c) apply to the filling and gauging of portable containers. In addition, a proprietor may withdraw denatured spirits from the bonded premises in portable containers based on the filling gauge.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 19 U.S.C. 81c, 1311; 26 U.S.C. 5001, 5002, 5004-5006, 5008, 5010, 5041, 5061, 5062, 5066, 5081, 5101, 5111-5114, 5121-5124, 5142, 5143, 5146, 5148, 5171-5173, 5175, 5176, 5178-5181, 5201-5204, 5206, 5207, 5211-5215, 5221-5223, 5231, 5232, 5235, 5236, 5241-5243, 5271, 5273, 5301, 5311-5313, 5362, 5370, 5373, 5501-5505, 5551-5555, 5559, 5561, 5562, 5601, 5612, 5682, 6001, 6065, 6109, 6302, 6311, 6676, 6806, 7011, 7510, 7805; 31 U.S.C. 9301, 9303, 9304, 9306.

### Source

Source: T.D. TTB-92, 76 FR 9090, Feb. 16, 2011, unless otherwise noted.