Bus. & Prof. Code, § 24045.17 · Article 4. Issuance and Renewal of Licenses
Bus. & Prof. Code, § 24045.17
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may issue a general on-sale license to a person who does not operate a bona fide eating place or other public premises who meets all of the following:
(a) Has operated a catering business for not less than five years.
(b) Has operated or owned for not less than one year a bona fide eating place that had a general on-sale license.
(c) Caters over 500 events annually.
(d) Serves alcoholic beverages at no more than 25 percent of the events catered annually and has revenues from the sale of alcoholic beverages which do not constitute more than 25 percent of his or her total annual revenues.
(e) Obtains an annual permit to serve alcoholic beverages at events and obtains an authorization for each event, as specified in Section 23399.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by renumbering Section 24045.12 (as amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 639) by Stats. 2007, Ch. 349, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2008.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
- Official file
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=24045.17.
- Text hash
- sha256 4b0d90b533010fe8ba1cc21af2368001b271794abef24eebe9f7142b38f608a5
- Composed by
- compose_ca.py 2026-10-22: the Legislative Counsel's CAML content files read by a tokenizer (caml_readers.reader_a); an independent xml.etree reading (caml_readers.reader_b) agrees on every section
This section cites
Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Business and Professions Code
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.