Every licensee, or agent or employee of a licensee, who keeps, permits to be used, or suffers to be used, in conjunction with a licensed premises, any disorderly house or place in which people abide or to which people resort, to the disturbance of the neighborhood, or in which people abide or to which people resort for purposes which are injurious to the public morals, health, convenience, or safety, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 25601
In General
Known as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act
The act spans §§ 23000–25762 (737 sections).
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case 2 Cal. 3d 85 - Boreta Enterprises, Inc. v. Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (1970)
Most recently applied in 2 Cal. 3d 85 - Boreta Enterprises, Inc. v. Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (February 1970)
Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 152.
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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.