BILL NUMBER: AB 569 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 15, 2015
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 26, 2015
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Linder
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
An act to amend Sections Section
24045.1 and 25633 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 569, as amended, Linder. Alcoholic beverages: delivery.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that alcoholic
beverages may not be delivered to on-sale and off-sale licensees on
Sunday or on any other day except between the hours of 3 a.m. and 8
p.m., and further provides that a violation of this provision is a
misdemeanor.
This bill would allow beer wholesalers and certain beer
manufacturers to deliver beer beer, as
specified, to daily on-sale general licensees between the hours
of 8 6 a.m. and 8
2 p.m. on Sunday. The bill would make conforming
technical changes.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 24045.1 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
24045.1. (a) The department, in its discretion, may issue on a
temporary basis a daily on-sale general license and the fee for the
license shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) per day. The license
authorizes the sale of distilled spirits, wine, and beer for
consumption on the premises where sold, and off-sale privileges shall
not be exercised under the license. A daily on-sale general license
may only be issued to a political party or affiliate supporting a
candidate for public office or a ballot measure, an organization
formed for a specific charitable or civic purpose, a fraternal
organization in existence for over five years with a regular
membership, or a religious organization. Distilled spirits sold under
a daily on-sale general license shall have been purchased at retail
from the holder of an off-sale general license.
(b) (1) In addition to the
hours and days specified in Section 25633, a beer wholesaler may
deliver beer beer, or a beer manufacturer
that is authorized to sell beer pursuant to Section 23357 may deliver
beer it has produced, between the hours of 8
6 a.m. and 8 2
p.m. on Sunday to a daily on-sale general licensee.
(2) In addition to the hours and days specified in Section 25633,
a beer manufacturer may deliver beer that it produced pursuant to
Section 23357 between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Sunday to a
daily on-sale general licensee.
(c) The department may adopt such rules as it determines to be
necessary to implement and administer the provisions of this section,
including, but not limited to, limitations on the number of times
during any calendar year a qualified organization may be issued a
license provided for by this section.
(d) The provisions of Article 2 (commencing with Section 23815) of
Chapter 5 and Article 2 (commencing with Section 23985) of Chapter 6
of this division shall not be applicable to the licenses provided
for by this section.
SEC. 2. Section 25633 of the Business and
Professions Code is amended to read:
25633. Except as otherwise provided in this section and
subdivision (b) of Section 24045.1, a person licensed as a
manufacturer, winegrower, distilled spirits manufacturer's agent,
rectifier, or wholesaler of any alcoholic beverage shall not deliver
or cause to be delivered any alcoholic beverage to or for any person
holding an on-sale or off-sale license on Sunday or except between
the hours of 3 a.m. and 8 p.m. of any day other than Sunday. Any
alcoholic beverage may be delivered at the platform of the
manufacturing, producing, or distributing plant at any time. Nothing
contained in this section prohibits the transportation or the
carriage and delivery in transit at any time of an alcoholic beverage
between the premises of a manufacturer, winegrower, wholesaler,
distiller, importer, or any of them. A person violating the
provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.