California CodesBusiness and Professions Code - BPCDivision 9 — Alcoholic BeveragesChapter 1 — General Provisions and DefinitionsSection 23001
This division is an exercise of the police powers of the State for the protection of the safety, welfare, health, peace, and morals of the people of the State, to eliminate the evils of unlicensed and unlawful manufacture, selling, and disposing of alcoholic beverages, and to promote temperance in the use and consumption of alcoholic beverages. It is hereby declared that the subject matter of this division involves in the highest degree the economic, social, and moral well-being and the safety of the State and of all its people. All provisions of this division shall be liberally construed for the accomplishment of these purposes.
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Establishes the division as an exercise of state police power to protect public safety, welfare, health, peace, and morals, eliminate unlawful or unlicensed alcoholic-beverage activity, and promote temperance. Declares the subject highly important to the state economic, social, moral, and safety interests and requires liberal construction of all division provisions to accomplish those purposes.
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