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[CITE: 27USC201]

 
                     TITLE 27--INTOXICATING LIQUORS
 
              CHAPTER 8--FEDERAL ALCOHOL ADMINISTRATION ACT
 
              SUBCHAPTER I--FEDERAL ALCOHOL ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 201. Short title

    This subchapter may be cited as the ``Federal Alcohol Administration 
Act''.

(Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 814, title I, Sec. 101, formerly Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 
977; renumbered title I, Sec. 101, and amended Pub. L. 100-690, title 
VIII, Sec. 8001(a)(1), (2), (b)(1), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4517, 
4521.)


                               Amendments

    1988--Pub. L. 100-690, Sec. 8001(b)(1), amended section generally, 
substituting ``subchapter'' for ``chapter''.


                               Short Title

    Section 201 of title II of act Aug. 29, 1935, as added Nov. 18, 
1988, Pub. L. 100-690, title VIII, Sec. 8001(a)(3), 102 Stat. 4518, 
provided that: ``This title [enacting subchapter II of this chapter] may 
be cited as the `Alcoholic Beverage Labeling Act of 1988'.''

                          Transfer of Functions

    Federal Alcohol Administration and offices of members and 
Administrator thereof were abolished and their functions directed to be 
administered under direction and supervision of Secretary of Treasury 
through Bureau of Internal Revenue [now Internal Revenue Service] in 
Department of Treasury, by Reorg. Plan No. III of 1940, Sec. 2, eff. 
June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2107, 54 Stat. 1232, set out in the Appendix to 
Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. See also, sections 8 and 
9 of said plan for provisions relating to transfer of records, property, 
personnel, and funds. Section 2 of Reorg. Plan No. III of 1940 was 
repealed as executed by Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 5(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 
Stat. 1068, 1085, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and 
Finance. Department of the Treasury Order 221 of July 1, 1972, 
established the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and transferred 
to it the alcohol and functions of the Internal Revenue Service.
