2025 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 9 - ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
CHAPTER 5 - Restrictions on Issuance of Licenses
ARTICLE 2 - Limitation on Number of Licensed Premises
Section 23826.

Universal Citation:
CA Bus & Prof Code § 23826 (2025)
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23826. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, in any county where the inhabitants number less than 2,500 and where on July 1 of any calendar year there exists in any such county none or only one on-sale general license and none or only one off-sale general license the department may issue one additional original on-sale general license and one additional original off-sale general license during the following 12-month period.

In issuing the licenses provided for in this section, the department shall follow the procedure set forth in Section 23961.

A license issued pursuant to this section shall not be transferred from one county to another.

(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 889.)

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