---
kind: "section"
citation: "27 C.F.R. § 20.164"
title: "27"
number: "20.164"
heading: "Premises."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/27/20.164"
---

# §20.164. Premises.

- (a) A permittee shall have premises suitable for the business being conducted and adequate for protecting the revenue.
- (b) Storage facilities shall be provided on the premises for specially denatured spirits received or recovered. Except as provided in [paragraph (c)](#c) of this section, storage facilities shall consist of storerooms, compartments, or stationary storage tanks (not necessarily in a room or building).
- (c) A permittee receiving and storing specially denatured spirits in tank cars or tank trucks, as provided in [§ 20.163](/cfr/27/20.163.md), need not provide stationary storage tanks.
- (d) If specially denatured spirits are received at or removed from a permittee's premises in bulk conveyances, suitable facilities for those operations shall be provided.
- (e) The appropriate TTB officer may require the storage facilities or distilling equipment to be secured with Government locks or seals, or both.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 26 U.S.C. 5001, 5206, 5214, 5271-5275, 5311, 5552, 5555, 5607, 6065, 6109, 7805.

### Source

Source: T.D. ATF-199, 50 FR 9162, Mar. 6, 1985, unless otherwise noted.