§ 5712. Application for permit
Every person, before commencing business as a manufacturer or importer of tobacco products or processed tobacco or as an export warehouse proprietor, and at such other time as the Secretary shall by regulation prescribe, shall make application for the permit provided for in section
5713. The application shall be in such form as the Secretary shall prescribe and shall set forth, truthfully and accurately, the information called for on the form. Such application may be rejected and the permit denied if the Secretary, after notice and opportunity for hearing, find that—
(1)
the premises on which it is proposed to conduct the business are not adequate to protect the revenue;
(2)
the activity proposed to be carried out at such premises does not meet such minimum capacity or activity requirements as the Secretary may prescribe,[1] or
(3)
such person (including, in the case of a corporation, any officer, director, or principal stockholder and, in the case of a partnership, a partner)—
(A)
is, by reason of his business experience, financial standing, or trade connections or by reason of previous or current legal proceedings involving a felony violation of any other provision of Federal criminal law relating to tobacco products, processed tobacco, cigarette paper, or cigarette tubes, not likely to maintain operations in compliance with this chapter,
[1] So in original. The comma probably should be a semicolon.