§ 5712.
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
(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,
(B)
has been convicted of a felony violation of any provision of Federal or State criminal law relating to tobacco products, processed tobacco, cigarette paper, or cigarette tubes, or
(C)
has failed to disclose any material information required or made any material false statement in the application therefor.
([Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736], [68A Stat. 712]; [Pub. L. 85–859, title II, § 202], Sept. 2, 1958, [72 Stat. 1421]; [Pub. L. 94–455, title XIX], §§ 1905(a)(27), 1906(b)(13)(A), Oct. 4, 1976, [90 Stat. 1821], 1834; [Pub. L. 105–33, title IX, § 9302(h)(2)(A)], (5), Aug. 5, 1997, [111 Stat. 674]; [Pub. L. 111–3, title VII, § 702(a)(1)(A)], (b)(1), Feb. 4, 2009, [123 Stat. 108], 109.)