California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 1 - In General

  • Section 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, except...
  • Section 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 available via the...
  • Section 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 in a sweepstakes authorized...
  • Section 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 beverages at retail...
  • Section 25600.5.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, a manufacturer of distilled spirits, distilled spirits manufacturer’s agent, out-of-state distilled spirits shipper’s certificate holder, winegrower, rectifier, or...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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,...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 25605.
    No off-sale licensee shall deliver any alcoholic beverages pursuant to orders received for alcoholic beverages by telephone or other electronic means unless upon delivery the...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 25607.
    (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), it is unlawful for any person or licensee to have upon any premises for which a license...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 25610.
    (a) Any person who erases, removes, obliterates, destroys, or renders illegible in any manner any serial numbers, stamps, marks, brands, legends, or other information required by...
  • Section 25611.1.
    Any manufacturer, winegrower, manufacturer’s agent, rectifier, distiller, bottler, importer, or wholesaler, or any officer, director, or agent of any of these persons may furnish, give,...
  • Section 25611.2.
    Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit any alcoholic beverage manufacturer, manufacturer’s agent, winegrower, or wholesaler from furnishing or giving electronic data services to a licensed...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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,...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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 persons...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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, “alcohol...
  • Section 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 within this...
  • Section 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, manufactures, or distributes...
  • Section 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 uses powdered alcohol is...

Last modified: October 22, 2018