---
kind: "section"
citation: "26 U.S.C. § 5216"
title: "26"
title_heading: "Internal Revenue Code"
number: "5216"
heading: "Regulation of operations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/26/5216"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Alcohol, Tobacco, and Certain Other Excise Taxes"
  - "Chapter 51 — Distilled Spirits, Wines, and Beer"
  - "Subchapter C — Operation of Distilled Spirits Plants"
  - "Part II — Operations on Bonded Premises"
  - "Subpart A — General"
---

# §5216. Regulation of operations


For general provisions relating to operations on [bonded premises](/usc/26/5002.md?p=a-3) see part I of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 85–859, title II, § 201, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1364.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 5216, act Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 640, related to “mash, wort and vinegar; vinegar factories”, prior to the general revision of this chapter by Pub. L. 85–859. See sections 5178(c)(4), 5222(a)(1), (2)(D), (d), 5501, 5502(a), 5503, 5504(a), (b), 5505(a), (c) and 5601(a)(7), (8), (9)(A) of this title.

A prior section 5217, acts Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 641; July 11, 1956, ch. 573, § 1, 70 Stat. 530; July 11, 1958, Pub. L. 85–517, 72 Stat. 357, related to national emergency transfers, prior to the general revision of this chapter by Pub. L. 85–859.