This division shall be known and may be cited as the “Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.”
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 23000
General Provisions and Definitions
Known as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act
The act spans §§ 23000–25762 (737 sections).
Applied in 28 court decisions — leading case 7 Cal. 4th 1238 - Turner v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc. (1994)
Most recently applied in Retail Digital Network, LLC v. Prieto (June 2017)
Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 152.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.