BILL NUMBER: SB 120	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Roth

                        JANUARY 17, 2013

   An act to amend Section 172g of the Penal Code, relating to
intoxicating liquors, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take
effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 120, as introduced, Roth. Intoxicating liquors.
   Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to sell, or expose for sale,
any intoxicating liquor within one mile of the entrance to La Sierra
College in the City of Riverside, as provided. A person who violates
this provision is subject to a fine of not less than $100,
imprisonment in a county jail of not less than 50 days nor more than
one year, or both that fine and imprisonment.
   This bill would reduce that distance to one-half mile.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated
local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 172g of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   172g.   1.     (a) 
  Every person who, within  one  
one-half  mile by air line from the intersection of Sierra
Vista, Pierce, and Campus Drive streets at the entrance to La Sierra
College in the City of Riverside, or within one mile of the grounds
or campus of Loma Linda University in the County of San Bernardino,
or within one mile of the grounds of the University of Santa Clara in
the City of Santa Clara, sells, or exposes for sale, any
intoxicating liquor, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred
dollars ($100), or by imprisonment in the county jail of not less
than 50 days nor more than one year, or by both  such
  that  fine and imprisonment in the discretion of
the court. 
   2. 
    (b)  The provisions of this section shall not apply to
the sale or exposing or offering for sale of ale, porter, wine,
similar fermented malt or vinous liquor or fruit juice containing
one-half of 1 percent or more of alcohol by volume and not more than
3.2 percent of alcohol by weight nor the sale or exposing or offering
for sale of beer. 
   3. 
    (c)  Distances provided in this section shall be
measured not by air line but by following the shortest road or roads
connecting the points in question except those applying to La Sierra
College.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to preserve the public peace, health, and safety by
stimulating local economic development at the earliest possible time,
it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.