2025 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 9 - ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
CHAPTER 13 - Labels and Containers
ARTICLE 1 - Distilled Spirits
Section 25178.

Universal Citation:
CA Bus & Prof Code § 25178 (2025)
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25178. No on-sale general licensee or any person employed by such licensee shall sell, offer for sale, or keep for sale an empty distilled spirits bottle. No criminal penalty shall be imposed for a violation of this section. For such a violation the department may impose a monetary penalty of not more than one hundred dollars ($100) or suspend or revoke a license.

(Repealed and added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 177.)

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