2013 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 9. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
CHAPTER 15. Tied-House Restrictions
25500.1

(a) The listing of the names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, or Internet Web site addresses, or other electronic media, of two or more unaffiliated on-sale retailers selling beer, wine, or distilled spirits 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 on-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 on-sale retailers in the direct communication.

(3) The listing does not refer only to one on-sale retailer or only to on-sale retail establishments controlled directly or indirectly by the same on-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 that entity, or a wholesaler, regardless of any other licenses held directly or indirectly by that person.

(Added by renumbering Section 25500.2 by Stats. 2012, Ch. 374, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2013.)