Sections
43 entriesSection 25600Prohibits licensees from giving premiums, gifts, or free goods with alcohol sales unless authorized, while allowing refunds, charitable donations through January 1,…Section 25600.05Allows a beer manufacturer to give each on-sale licensed location up to five cases of advertising glassware yearly, while a retailer may…Section 25600.1Allows authorized licensees to run contests for persons 21 or older without alcohol-purchase entry, participant drinking, retail-licensee benefit, or alcoholic-beverage prizes, although…Section 25600.2Allows authorized licensees to conduct consumer sweepstakes for persons 21 or older without entry fees, alcohol-purchase entry, participant drinking, retail-licensee benefit, or…Section 25600.3Prohibits nonretail alcohol licensees from funding or supplying most consumer coupons and retailers from accepting them, while allowing specified postpurchase rebates, distilled-spirit…Section 25600.5Allows specified wine and distilled-spirits licensees to host invitation-only sales-related events for adults 21 or older, with up to 600 attendees and…Section 25601Establishes misdemeanor liability for a licensee, agent, or employee that keeps, permits, or suffers a disorderly house or place used with licensed…Section 25602Establishes misdemeanor liability for selling, furnishing, or giving alcohol to a habitual or common drunkard or an obviously intoxicated person. Bars civil…Section 25602.1Allows an injury or death action against a person licensed or required to be licensed, a federally authorized alcohol seller on a…Section 25602.2Allows the department director to sue in the county where a violation occurs or is threatened to enjoin conduct prohibited by the…Section 25602.3Bars a licensee from petitioning the department for an offer in compromise for a second or subsequent violation of the specified prohibition…Section 25603Establishes felony liability for a person who, without legal authorization, brings any alcoholic beverage into a state prison, city or county jail,…Section 25604Establishes a public nuisance for maintaining an unlicensed club room where alcohol is kept or brought for on-premises consumption, or unlicensed premises…Section 25605Prohibits an off-sale alcohol licensee from delivering alcoholic beverages ordered by telephone or other electronic means unless the person receiving the delivery…Section 25606Prohibits using a vehicle to conceal or transport seizable alcoholic beverages, stills, or alcohol-production materials with intent to evade excise taxes or…Section 25607Prohibits possessing alcohol on licensed premises unless authorized, with exceptions for cooking alcohol and shared licensed areas. Manufacturer-retailer shared areas require department…Section 25607.5Allows a nonprofit corporation required to obtain a license to sell beer or wine to receive and possess donated beer or wine…Section 25608Prohibits possessing, consuming, selling, giving, or delivering alcoholic beverages in a public schoolhouse or on public school grounds, subject to listed exceptions…Section 25608.5Prohibits a person in a nonmotorized vessel on the Lower American River from Hazel Avenue Bridge to Watt Avenue Bridge from possessing…Section 25608.10Prohibits a person in a vessel or a bather on the specified Truckee River segment from possessing any open or closed alcoholic-beverage…Section 25608.12Prohibits vessel occupants and bathers on the specified Sacramento River segment from possessing open or closed alcoholic-beverage containers during summer holiday periods…Section 25609Prohibits an on-sale licensee from responding to a customer’s request for an alcoholic beverage of a particular brand, type, or character by…Section 25610Prohibits erasing, removing, destroying, or making illegible legally required identifying information on alcoholic-beverage packages or original cases before their contents are fully…Section 25611.1Allows specified alcoholic-beverage manufacturers and nonretail licensees to furnish, give, lend, sell, or rent interior and exterior advertising signs to retailers, subject…Section 25611.2Allows an alcoholic-beverage manufacturer, manufacturer’s agent, winegrower, or wholesaler to furnish or give electronic data services to licensed retail premises. Covered services…Section 25611.3Allows a beer wholesaler to sell or rent exterior beer-advertising signs, including signs, inflatables, and banners, for on-sale or off-sale retail premises.…Section 25612Requires alcoholic-beverage advertising signs used by retail licensees to avoid being obnoxious, gaudy, blatant, or offensive and to comply with department rules…Section 25612.5Requires covered retail alcohol licensees to remove litter daily, clean weekly, remove graffiti within 72 hours, limit window/door signs to 33%, and…Section 25613Requires an on-sale retailer dispensing draught beer to post a clear, legible English-language brand notice at each faucet, spigot, or outlet. If…Section 25614Prohibits violations of the specified draught-beer labeling provisions, substituting a different draught-beer brand from the one shown on required notices, substituting one…Section 25616Sets misdemeanor penalties for knowingly or willfully filing a false license-fee report, refusing authorized inspections, failing to keep or preserve required account…Section 25617Sets the default penalty for violating a provision of the alcoholic-beverage division when no other penalty is specifically provided. The violation is…Section 25618Sets punishment for a felony violation of the division when no other punishment is specifically provided: a fine up to $10,000, imprisonment…Section 25619Requires every state peace officer and district attorney to enforce the division, report against, and diligently prosecute persons they have reasonable cause…Section 25620Prohibits possession of an opened or partially consumed alcoholic-beverage container in specified publicly owned parks or places when the local government has…Section 25621Prohibits purchasing, offering for sale, or using vaporized alcohol produced by an alcohol-vaporizing device, and separately prohibits possessing, selling, or offering such…Section 25621.5Prohibits an alcoholic-beverage licensee from selling, offering, or providing cannabis or cannabis products at licensed premises, including alcoholic beverages containing cannabis, and…Section 25622Prohibits importing, producing, manufacturing, distributing, or retail selling in California beer with caffeine directly added as a separate ingredient. The department may…Section 25623Prohibits possessing, purchasing, selling, offering for sale, manufacturing, distributing, or using powdered alcohol. Selling, offering for sale, manufacturing, or distributing powdered alcohol…Section 25623.5Prohibits a person from purchasing, possessing, or using powdered alcohol. A violation involving purchase, possession, or use is an infraction punishable by…Section 25624Requires Type 48 on-sale general public premises, beginning July 1, 2024, to offer unexpired drug-testing devices for sale at no more than…Section 25624.5Requires a Type 48 license applicant or holder, when a customer reports suspected drink spiking, to contact law enforcement or emergency medical…Section 25625Requires Type 48 applicants and licensees, beginning July 1, 2025, to provide a drink lid on request and post the specified drink-spiking…