Sections
66 entriesSection 25500Prohibits specified nonretail alcohol interests from owning on-sale licenses or interests, financing on-sale operators, or holding listed business or real-property interests, subject…Section 25500.1Allows a nonretail industry member to list contact information for at least two unaffiliated retailers selling its products without the listing becoming…Section 25501Prohibits brewing-industry manufacturers, bottlers, importers, and wholesalers from furnishing most equipment or supplies to on-sale operators or owning interests in furnishing businesses.…Section 25502Prohibits specified manufacturers, agents, importers, and wholesalers from owning interests in off-sale licenses, financing off-sale operators, or controlling listed business, equipment, lease,…Section 25502.2Allows consumer autograph events at an off-sale retailer by a person engaged by an authorized nonretail licensee, without purchase or admission, for…Section 25503Prohibits specified nonretail alcohol licensees from consignment sales, transaction-related free alcohol, secret rebates or concessions, value given to retail employees to promote…Section 25503.1Allows specified manufacturers, importers, and wholesalers to install and service promotional displays and provide qualifying decorations, advertising materials, and newspaper production materials…Section 25503.2Allows specified suppliers, with retailer permission, to arrange, rotate, inventory, clean, and in limited circumstances stock their brands at off-sale premises; beer…Section 25503.3Allows specified alcohol manufacturers and suppliers to provide free food, beverages, entertainment, and recreational activities to retail licensees and guests at qualifying…Section 25503.4Allows specified wine suppliers to conduct consumer instructional events at retail premises, providing up to three one-ounce tastes per consumer and removing…Section 25503.5Allows winegrowers, beer manufacturers, beer-and-wine wholesalers, craft distillers, distilled-spirits manufacturers, agents, rectifiers, and importers to provide licensees and their employees free instruction…Section 25503.51Allows a distilled-spirits wholesaler, rectifier, brandy manufacturer, or craft distiller to provide free distilled-spirits instruction or courses to licensees and their employees…Section 25503.55Allows beer manufacturers, general beer-and-wine importers, and beer-and-wine wholesalers to conduct consumer beer instruction at on-sale premises, including up to eight ounces…Section 25503.56Allows one free single-beverage instructional tasting per off-sale premises daily for adults 21 or older, subject to serving caps. A beer-and-wine wholesaler…Section 25503.57Allows authorized wine and distilled-spirits suppliers or representatives, with retailer permission, to instruct consumers at on-sale premises and provide up to three…Section 25503.6Allows specified beer, wine, and distilled-spirits suppliers to purchase advertising space or time from or for on-sale licensees associated with listed qualifying…Section 25503.61Allows specified alcohol suppliers to sponsor events and buy advertising from qualifying on-sale interests in an Orange County mixed-use district of at…Section 25503.62Allows authorized alcohol suppliers to sponsor events and purchase advertising connected with a Kings County wave-basin facility holding at least 9,000 people,…Section 25503.63Allows specified alcohol suppliers to sponsor qualifying cultural events and purchase advertising at a Los Angeles for-profit cemetery that is more than…Section 25503.7Allows a winegrower, beer manufacturer, or beer and wine wholesaler to serve food and alcoholic beverages to any person attending a meeting…Section 25503.8Allows specified beer, wine, and distilled-spirits suppliers to purchase advertising from qualifying on-sale owners of listed auditoriums, theaters, studio facilities, theme or…Section 25503.85Allows specified alcohol suppliers to purchase small sponsorship notices, plaques, or signs from a qualifying nonprofit-operated accredited zoo or aquarium for on-premises…Section 25503.9Allows specified alcohol suppliers to give or sell beer, wine, or spirits at prices outside filed schedules to qualifying tax-exempt charities, trade…Section 25503.10Allows department-approved leases from specified nonretail alcohol interests to retailers when the lease covers only real property and improvements, excludes personal property,…Section 25503.11Allows a manufacturer, manufacturer agent, winegrower, rectifier, importer, or wholesaler to own a diminutive amount of stock in a corporate retail licensee…Section 25503.12Allows a retail licensee to own a diminutive amount of stock in a corporate licensed manufacturer, manufacturer agent, winegrower, rectifier, importer, or…Section 25503.13Allows a qualifying foreign wine producer or related person that is unlicensed in the United States and specified neighboring countries to hold…Section 25503.14Allows a California off-sale general retailer holding at least 30 such licenses and operating at least 50 unlicensed wholesale grocery warehouses to…Section 25503.15Allows a winegrower with wholesale privileges interests in qualifying restaurant or bed-and-breakfast on-sale licenses. Direct wine purchases may involve winegrowers selling no…Section 25503.16Allows licenses for hotels, motels, or marine parks despite supplier ownership if hotels or motels have at least 25 guestrooms, alcohol is…Section 25503.17Allows an on-sale general license for premises integral to a professional-chef school despite specified nonretail ownership if the school operates with a…Section 25503.18Allows an off-sale beer-and-wine license for premises integral to a professional-chef school despite specified nonretail ownership if the school operates with a…Section 25503.19Allows an on-sale general license for passenger cruise ships or lines despite specified supplier ownership interests if alcohol provides no more than…Section 25503.20Allows specified manufacturers, winegrowers, agents, rectifiers, distillers, bottlers, importers, or wholesalers to hold interests or roles in, and fund programs or projects…Section 25503.21Allows specified alcoholic-beverage manufacturers, agents, rectifiers, distillers, bottlers, importers, wholesalers, and their officers, directors, or agents that entered an active premises lease…Section 25503.22Allows retail license issuance, transfer, or renewal despite an interest by a wholesaler licensed outside California in the premises, license, or licensee…Section 25503.23Allows a beer manufacturer or winegrower to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on-sale retail licensee that…Section 25503.24Allows specified manufacturers and suppliers to buy alcohol purchase-and-sales data from off-sale retailers at market rates for comparable nonalcoholic data, with each…Section 25503.26Allows specified alcohol suppliers to buy advertising from an on-sale licensee owning or leasing a horse-racing arena exceeding 10,000 seats in Los…Section 25503.27Allows alcoholic-beverage suppliers and representatives to provide retailers and retailer employees involved in business decisions with food, beverages, and local transportation for…Section 25503.28Allows a holder of no more than six on-sale licenses to own and work for a beer manufacturer, but combined retail privileges…Section 25503.29Allows on-sale licensing at a motion-picture or television facility or affiliated theme park despite supplier interests if alcohol is at most 10…Section 25503.30Allows a winegrower, qualifying 51%-owned subsidiaries, and related persons interests in up to two on-sale licenses, with affiliated wine generally limited to…Section 25503.31Allows specified alcohol suppliers and retailers to contribute money or authorized alcoholic beverages to a qualifying San Francisco symphony organization incorporated through…Section 25503.32Allows specified suppliers to buy advertising for public events at a Napa opera house built in 1880, nationally listed, and administered by…Section 25503.33Allows beer manufacturers and winegrowers to fund qualifying history-themed outdoor fairs operating six to 12 weekends with average daily attendance above 10,000,…Section 25503.34Allows suppliers to donate beverages and money to a nonprofit on-sale licensee at a Sonoma State University cultural complex of no more…Section 25503.35Allows specified suppliers to buy advertising for a San Francisco for-profit historic theater built before 1927, with a special on-sale general license…Section 25503.36Allows suppliers to sponsor and advertise events at the San Diego County Fairgrounds under contracts when events last no more than four…Section 25503.37Allows on-sale licensing for an interactive entertainment facility despite supplier interests if interactive entertainment is the principal business, alcohol is generally purchased…Section 25503.38Allows a beer manufacturer to sponsor or buy advertising from an off-sale retailer owning or coowning a professional sports team playing home…Section 25503.39Allows specified suppliers to sponsor entertainment events and buy advertising from a qualifying live-entertainment marketing company under written contracts when venues serve…Section 25503.41Allows an out-of-state winery and distillery operator to hold interests in up to 12 brewpub-restaurant licenses if those operations occur only at…Section 25503.42Allows suppliers to buy indoor advertising at a ticket-only Los Angeles venue with more than 2,000 but at most 3,000 patrons under…Section 25503.45Allows beer manufacturers and general beer-and-wine importers, with on-sale retailer permission, to instruct consumers about beer and serve beer the retailer sells;…Section 25504Establishes tied-interest violations as misdemeanors and also makes a retail on-sale or off-sale licensee guilty when it solicits a violation or knowingly…Section 25504.5Exempts manufacturers and wholesalers from the specified tied-interest and gift restrictions when they occasionally inspect and clean taps and tapping equipment installed…Section 25505Prohibits on-sale licensees and their officers, directors, employees, or agents from holding interests in specified manufacturer, winegrower, rectifier, importer, or wholesaler licenses,…Section 25506Prohibits an off-sale general licensee, and its officers, directors, employees, or agents, from directly or indirectly holding any ownership or interest in…Section 25507Exempts a licensed winegrower or brandy manufacturer that holds the specified off-sale general license, and its officers, directors, or employees, from the…Section 25508Allows May 1, 1947 members or interest holders of a distilled-spirits-wholesaler cooperative to hold, renew, or acquire off-sale general licenses for bona…Section 25509Sets retailer payment terms operative January 1, 2026: balances unpaid after 30 days require advance payment, day 43 triggers a 1 percent…Section 25509.1Requires retailers, from January 1, 2026, to pay delivered-alcohol invoices by wholesaler-initiated EFT within 30 days, except cash/check/money-order after insufficient funds, for…Section 25510Allows manufacturers to furnish licensed wholesalers, and manufacturers or wholesalers to furnish on-sale licensees, only the listed tapping equipment for an initial…Section 25511Allows a manufacturer or wholesaler and specified representatives to furnish, give, rent, lend, or sell nonalcoholic equipment, fixtures, or supplies to a…Section 25512Allows a licensee holding no more than eight on-sale licenses to own up to 16.67 percent of a corporation holding a beer…