California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 9 — Alcoholic Beverages, Chapter 5 — Restrictions on Issuance of Licenses, Article 1 — In General, Section 23774
The provisions of Sections 23771 and 23772 do not prevent the issuance of a distilled spirits wholesale license to any person who, on July 1, 1937, owned or operated a business which for five years immediately preceding that date had maintained and operated in this State a bona fide jobbing and distributing establishment for the sale to retail dealers of goods, wares, and merchandise, the major portion of which business at a time five years preceding July 1, 1937, was goods, wares, and merchandise other than alcoholic beverages.
Notes
Exempts from the referenced ownership restrictions issuance of a distilled-spirits wholesale license to a person who, on July 1, 1937, owned or operated a California jobbing and distribution business maintained for the preceding five years and whose business five years before that date consisted primarily of goods other than alcoholic beverages.
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