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.
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 23779
In General
Known as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act
The act spans §§ 23000–25762 (737 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Louis Stores, Inc. v. Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (1962)
Most recently applied in 215 Cal. App. 2d 503 - Borun Bros. v. Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (April 1963)
Amended by Stats. 1955, Ch. 447.
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.