Bill Text: CA AB2739 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control: special on-sale general license: for-profit theater.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-08-25 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 187, Statutes of 2016. [AB2739 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2739-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2739	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  187
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 25, 2016
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 25, 2016
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 15, 2016
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  APRIL 28, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chiu
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Ting)
   (Coauthor: Senator Leno)

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 24045.75 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to alcoholic beverages, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2739, Chiu. Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control: special
on-sale general license: for-profit theater.
   Under existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act is
administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control through
the Director of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Existing law authorizes
the department to issue a special on-sale general license to the
operator of any for-profit theater located within the City and County
of San Francisco, as specified. Existing law prohibits that special
on-sale general license from being issued until any existing licenses
issued by the department to the operator for the premises of the
for-profit theater are canceled.
   This bill would delete that prohibition.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 24045.75 of the Business and Professions Code
is amended to read:
   24045.75.  (a) The department may issue a special on-sale general
license to the operator of any for-profit theater located within the
City and County of San Francisco, configured with theatrical seating
of at least 1,000 seats and primarily devoted to live theatrical
performances.
   (b) The special on-sale general license shall permit sales,
service, and consumption of alcoholic beverages in the lobbies and
seating areas of the theater for the period beginning two consecutive
hours prior to a live theatrical performance and ending one hour
after the live theatrical performance is completed, subject to
Section 25631. Any special on-sale general license issued pursuant to
this section shall be subject to the limitations provided by Section
23816, but shall not be required to be operated as a bona fide
public eating place. The theater further shall not be subject to the
provisions of Section 23793.
   (c) For purposes of this section, "for-profit theater" shall not
include an adult or sexually oriented business, as defined in Section
318.5 of the Penal Code.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to ensure the fair and efficient application of the
alcoholic beverage control licensing laws with respect to for-profit
theaters within the City and County of San Francisco, it is necessary
that this act take effect immediately.