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2025 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 9 - ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
CHAPTER 13 - Labels and Containers
ARTICLE 3 - Wine
Section 25239.
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CA Bus & Prof Code § 25239 (2025)
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25239. Every person who, with intent to defraud, either falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits the label for any wine or uses the label or bottle of any wine belonging to another, without his or her consent, is guilty of a misdemeanor. The department may seize wine labeled in violation of this section, regardless of where found and may dispose of the wine pursuant to Section 25355.
(Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 135, Sec. 3.)
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