BILL NUMBER: AB 2878	CHAPTERED  09/20/04

	CHAPTER  604
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 20, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 20, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 26, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 29, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 14, 2004

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Aghazarian

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2004

   An act to amend Section 25510 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2878, Aghazarian.  Alcoholic beverages:  beer tapping
equipment.
   Existing law permits a manufacturer to furnish to a licensed
wholesaler, and a licensed wholesaler or manufacturer to furnish to
an on-sale licensee, only specified items of alcoholic beverage
tapping equipment.
   This bill would include filters among those items.  Because a
violation of this provision would be a misdemeanor, this bill would
impose a state-mandated local program by changing the definition of a
crime.
  The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state.  Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 25510 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   25510.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a
manufacturer may furnish to a licensed wholesaler, and a licensed
wholesaler or manufacturer may furnish to an on-sale licensee, only
the following specified items of alcoholic beverage tapping
equipment: kegs, tapping heads, air lines, alcoholic beverage lines,
clamps, washers, coupling devices, rods, vents, valves, keg spacers,
and filters for an initial installation in a new on-sale licensed
account or for a changeover of equipment from one tapping system to
another.  A supplier may service, repair, and replace the
above-specified items of alcoholic beverage tapping equipment as
necessary.  This section shall not permit a supplier to furnish or
repair alcoholic beverage equipment not specified in this section to
an on-sale licensee.  Alcoholic beverage tapping equipment furnished
by a supplier shall remain the property of the supplier.
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.