CHAPTER 16. Regulatory Provisions [25600. - 25692.]

Chapter 16 added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 152.

§§ 25600–25692 · 77 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. In General §§ 25600–25625 · 43 sections

   • § 25600 (a) (1) No licensee shall, directly or indirectly, give any premium, gift, or free goods in connection with the sale or distribution of any alcoholic beverage,…
   • § 25600.05 (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Beer manufacturer” has the same meaning as that term is defined in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b)…
   • § 25600.1 (a) An authorized licensee may conduct consumer contests, subject to the following conditions: (1) (A) Entry or extra chances in a contest shall not be made…
   • § 25600.2 (a) An authorized licensee may conduct or sponsor consumer sweepstakes, subject to the following conditions: (1) (A) No entry fee may be charged to participate…
   • § 25600.3 (a) A nonretail licensee shall not offer, fund, produce, sponsor, promote, furnish, or redeem any type of coupon. (b) A licensee authorized to sell alcoholic…
   • § 25600.5 Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, a manufacturer of distilled spirits, distilled spirits manufacturer’s agent, out-of-state distilled…
   • § 25601 Every licensee, or agent or employee of a licensee, who keeps, permits to be used, or suffers to be used, in conjunction with a licensed premises, any…
   • § 25602 (a) Every person who sells, furnishes, gives, or causes to be sold, furnished, or given away, any alcoholic beverage to any habitual or common drunkard or to…
   • § 25602.1 Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 25602, a cause of action may be brought by or on behalf of any person who has suffered injury or death against any…
   • § 25602.2 The director may bring an action to enjoin a violation or the threatened violation of subdivision (a) of Section 25602. Such action may be brought in the…
   • § 25602.3 Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, no licensee may petition the department for an offer in compromise pursuant to Section 23095 for a second…
   • § 25603 Every person, not authorized by law, who brings into any state prison, city or county jail, city and county jail, or reformatory in this State, or within the…
   • § 25604 It is a public nuisance for any person to maintain any club room in which any alcoholic beverage is received or kept, or to which any alcoholic beverage is…
   • § 25605 No off-sale licensee shall deliver any alcoholic beverages pursuant to orders received for alcoholic beverages by telephone or other electronic means unless…
   • § 25606 It is unlawful for any person to use any automobile or other vehicle to conceal, convey, carry, or transport any alcoholic beverages which are subject to…
   • § 25607 (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f), it is unlawful for any person or licensee to have upon any premises for which a license has…
   • § 25607.5 A nonprofit corporation that is required to obtain a license to sell beer or wine under Section 23300 may receive and possess beer or wine donated to it if, at…
   • § 25608 (a) Every person who possesses, consumes, sells, gives, or delivers to another person an alcoholic beverage in or on a public schoolhouse or the grounds of the…
   • § 25608.5 (a) On the portion of the Lower American River, as defined in Section 5841 of the Public Resources Code, from the Hazel Avenue Bridge to the Watt Avenue…
   • § 25608.10 (a) On the portion of the Truckee River, from the outfall of Lake Tahoe upstream of the Highway 89 Bridge in Tahoe City to the Alpine Meadows Bridge, a person…
   • § 25608.12 (a) On the portion of the Sacramento River, from the Highway 32 Bridge to the mouth of Big Chico Creek, a person in a vessel, as defined by Section 651 of the…
   • § 25609 Every person who, in response to an inquiry or request for any brand, type, or character of alcoholic beverages, sells or offers for sale under an on-sale…
   • § 25610 (a) Any person who erases, removes, obliterates, destroys, or renders illegible in any manner any serial numbers, stamps, marks, brands, legends, or other…
   • § 25611.1 (a) Any manufacturer, winegrower, manufacturer’s agent, rectifier, distiller, bottler, importer, or wholesaler, or any officer, director, or agent of any of…
   • § 25611.2 Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit any alcoholic beverage manufacturer, manufacturer’s agent, winegrower, or wholesaler from furnishing or giving…
   • § 25611.3 A beer wholesaler may sell or rent exterior signs advertising beer for use at any on-sale or off-sale retail premises. Exterior signs include, but are not…
   • § 25612 Signs or other advertising matter used in connection with the licensed premises of any retailer of alcoholic beverages shall not be of any obnoxious, gaudy,…
   • § 25612.5 (a) This section shall apply to licensees other than a retail on-sale licensee or on-sale beer and wine licensee who is licensed and operates as a bona fide…
   • § 25613 Every holder of an on-sale retail license who gives, sells, or otherwise dispenses any draught beer shall, upon the faucet, spigot, or outlet from which the…
   • § 25614 Any person who violates any of the provisions of Sections 25611 to 25613, inclusive, or substitutes another or different brand of draught beer from that…
   • § 25616 Any person who knowingly or willfully files a false license fee report with the department, and any person who refuses to permit the department or any of its…
   • § 25617 Every person convicted for a violation of any of the provisions of this division for which another penalty or punishment is not specifically provided for in…
   • § 25618 Every person convicted of a felony for a violation of any of the provisions of this division for which another punishment is not specifically provided for in…
   • § 25619 Every peace officer and every district attorney in this State shall enforce the provisions of this division and shall inform against and diligently prosecute…
   • § 25620 (a) Any person possessing any can, bottle, or other receptacle containing any alcoholic beverage that has been opened, or a seal broken, or the contents of…
   • § 25621 (a) No person shall purchase, offer for sale, or use any vaporized form of alcohol produced by an alcohol vaporizing device. (b) For purposes of this section,…
   • § 25621.5 (a) A licensee shall not, at its licensed premises, sell, offer, or provide cannabis or cannabis products, as defined in Section 26001, including an alcoholic…
   • § 25622 (a) Beer to which caffeine has been directly added as a separate ingredient shall not be imported into this state, produced, manufactured, or distributed…
   • § 25623 (a) A person shall not possess, purchase, sell, offer for sale, manufacture, distribute, or use powdered alcohol. (b) Any person who sells, offers for sale,…
   • § 25623.5 (a) A person shall not possess, purchase, sell, offer for sale, manufacture, distribute, or use powdered alcohol. (b) Any person who purchases, possesses, or…
   • § 25624 (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Drug testing devices” means test strips, stickers, straws, and other devices designed…
   • § 25624.5 (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Drug testing devices” means test strips, stickers, straws, and other devices designed…
   • § 25625 (a) (1) An applicant for a new permanent on-sale general public premises (Type 48) license or the holder of an existing Type 48 license shall, upon request,…
2. ARTICLE 2. Hours of Sale and Delivery of Alcoholic Beverages §§ 25631–25633 · 4 sections

   • § 25631 Any on- or off-sale licensee, or agent or employee of that licensee, who sells, gives, or delivers to any persons any alcoholic beverage or any person who…
   • § 25631.5 (a) Notwithstanding Section 25631, alcoholic beverage sales may occur between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. upon the on-sale licensed premises operated in a fully enclosed…
   • § 25632 Any retail licensee, or agent or employee of such licensee, who permits any alcoholic beverage to be consumed by any person on the licensee’s licensed premises…
   • § 25633 Except as otherwise provided in this section, no person licensed as a manufacturer, winegrower, distilled spirits manufacturer’s agent, rectifier, or…
3. ARTICLE 3. Women and Minors §§ 25657–25668 · 20 sections

   • § 25657 It is unlawful: (a) For any person to employ, upon any licensed on-sale premises, any person for the purpose of procuring or encouraging the purchase or sale…
   • § 25658 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (c), every person who sells, furnishes, gives, or causes to be sold, furnished, or given away any alcoholic…
   • § 25658.1 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, no licensee may petition the department for an offer in compromise pursuant to Section 23095 for a…
   • § 25658.2 (a) A parent or legal guardian who knowingly permits his or her child, or a person in the company of the child, or both, who are under the age of 18 years, to…
   • § 25658.4 (a) No clerk shall make an off sale of alcoholic beverages unless the clerk executes under penalty of perjury on the first day of that sale an application and…
   • § 25658.5 (a) Any person under 21 years of age who attempts to purchase any alcoholic beverage from a licensee, or the licensee’s agent or employee, is guilty of an…
   • § 25659 For the purpose of preventing the violation of Section 25658, any licensee, or his or her agent or employee, may refuse to sell or serve alcoholic beverages to…
   • § 25659.5 (a) Retail licensees selling keg beer for consumption off licensed premises shall place an identification tag on all kegs of beer at the time of sale and shall…
   • § 25660 (a) Bona fide evidence of majority and identity of the person is any of the following: (1) A document issued by a federal, state, county, or municipal…
   • § 25660.5 Any person who sells, gives, or furnishes to any person under the age of 21 years any false or fraudulent written, printed, or photostatic evidence of the…
   • § 25661 (a) Any person under 21 years of age who presents or offers to any licensee, or agent or employee of a licensee, any written, printed, or photostatic evidence…
   • § 25662 (a) Except as provided in Section 25667 or 25668, any person under 21 years of age who possesses any alcoholic beverage on any street or highway or in any…
   • § 25663 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), no licensee that sells or serves alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises shall employ any person under…
   • § 25663.5 Notwithstanding Section 25663 or any other provision of law, persons 18 to 21 years of age may be employed as musicians, for entertainment purposes only,…
   • § 25664 (a) (1) The use, in any advertisement of alcoholic beverages, of any subject matter, language, or slogan addressed to and intended to encourage minors to drink…
   • § 25665 Any licensee under an on-sale license issued for public premises, as defined in Section 23039, who permits a person under the age of 21 years to enter and…
   • § 25666 (a) In a hearing on an accusation charging a licensee with a violation of Section 25658, the department shall produce the minor decoy alleged in the accusation…
   • § 25666.5 If a person is convicted of a violation of subdivision (b) of Section 25658, or Section 25658.5, 25661, or 25662 and is granted probation, the court may order,…
   • § 25667 (a) Any person under the age of 21 years shall be immune from criminal prosecution under subdivision (a) of Section 25662 and subdivision (b) of Section 25658,…
   • § 25668 (a) A qualified student may taste an alcoholic beverage, and both the student and the qualified academic institution in which the student is enrolled shall not…
4. ARTICLE 4. Responsible Beverage Service (RBS) Training Program Act of 2017 §§ 25680–25686 · 7 sections

   • § 25680 For purposes of this article: (a) “Alcohol server” means a person who serves alcoholic beverages for consumption, or a person who manages or supervises that…
   • § 25681 (a) The department shall develop, implement, and administer a curriculum for an RBS training program that will make RBS training courses available, both in…
   • § 25682 (a) Beginning July 1, 2022, a licensee that is subject to this article shall not employ or continue to employ any alcohol server without a valid alcohol server…
   • § 25683 A person shall not perform duties that include the sale or service of alcoholic beverages for consumption on licensed premises, and shall not manage that…
   • § 25684 The failure of a licensee to comply with this article shall be grounds for disciplinary action. A violation of this article shall not be grounds for any…
   • § 25685 (a) The department may adopt rules that it determines necessary for the administration of the provisions of this article. (b) The department may charge fees as…
   • § 25686 Nothing in this section shall be construed to expand the existing duties of a licensee in connection with the sale and service of alcoholic beverages. An…
5. ARTICLE 5. Entertainment Zones §§ 25690–25692 · 3 sections

   • § 25690 A city, county, or city and county that establishes an entertainment zone shall do both of the following: (a) Establish a process or procedure by which persons…
   • § 25691 (a) An ordinance establishing or modifying an entertainment zone shall not authorize consumption of alcoholic beverages during the hours in which sales of…
   • § 25692 (a) Before enacting an ordinance to establish or modify an entertainment zone, a city, county, or city and county shall notify local law enforcement and…