No person shall exercise the privilege or perform any act which a licensee may exercise or perform under the authority of a license unless the person is authorized to do so by a license issued pursuant to this division.
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 23300
In General
Known as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act
The act spans §§ 23000–25762 (737 sections).
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case 37 Cal. 3d 720 - Strang v. Cabrol (1984)
Most recently applied in 139 Cal. App. 4th 304 - Richards v. Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (May 2006)
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.