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DIVISION 9. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES 23000-25762›CHAPTER 5. Restrictions on Issuance of Licenses 23770-23827›ARTICLE 1. In General 23770-23794

§ 23779

California Business and Professions Code · 2020-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

No wholesale license shall be issued to any person who does not in good faith actually carry on or intend to carry on a bona fide wholesale business by sale to retail licensees of the alcoholic beverage designated in the wholesale license, and the department may revoke any wholesale license when the licensee fails for a period of 45 days actively and in good faith to engage in the wholesale business and shall revoke any distilled spirits wholesaler’s license held by any person who fails to comply with applicable provisions of Sections 23378, 23379, 23776, 23777, and 23778. Sale by a wholesale licensee to himself as a retail licensee is not the transaction of a bona fide wholesale business.

(Amended by Stats. 1955, Ch. 447.)

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