2012 California Codes
BPC - Business and Professions Code
DIVISION 9 - ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES [23000 - 25762]
CHAPTER 15 - Tied-House Restrictions
Section 25502.1

  

(a) Notwithstanding Section 25502, the listing of the names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, or Internet Web site addresses, of two or more unaffiliated off-sale retailers selling the products produced, distributed or imported by a nonretail industry member in response to a direct inquiry from a consumer received by telephone, by mail, by electronic inquiry or in person does not constitute a thing of value or prohibited inducement to the listed off-sale retailer, provided all of the following conditions are met:

(1) The listing does not also contain the retail price of the product.

(2) The listing is the only reference to the off-sale retailers in the direct communication.

(3) The listing does not refer only to one off-sale retailer or only to off-sale retail establishments controlled directly or indirectly by the same off-sale retailer.

(4) The listing is made by, or produced by, or paid for, exclusively by the nonretail industry member making the response.

(b) For the purposes of this section, “nonretail industry member” is defined as a manufacturer, including, but not limited to, a beer manufacturer, winegrower, or distiller of alcoholic beverages, or an agent of those entities, or a wholesaler, regardless of any other licenses held directly or indirectly by that person.

(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 285, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2011.)