BILL NUMBER: AB 710	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER   20
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JUNE 6, 1997
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JUNE 6, 1997
	PASSED THE SENATE   MAY 23, 1997
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   APRIL 10, 1997
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MARCH 31, 1997

INTRODUCED BY  Assembly Member Kuehl

                        FEBRUARY 26, 1997

   An act to add Section 24045.16 to the Business and Professions
Code, relating to alcoholic beverages, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 710, Kuehl.  Alcoholic beverages:  on-sale licenses.
   The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides for the issuance of an
on-sale general license and provides for the issuance of various
special or temporary licenses.
   This bill would authorize the issuance of an on-sale general bona
fide public eating place license to any nonprofit charitable arts
trust, as defined, that meets specified conditions.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 24045.16 is added to the Business and
Professions Code, to read:
   24045.16.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this division,
the department may issue an on-sale general bona fide public eating
place license as defined by Section 23038 to any nonprofit charitable
arts trust that is exempt from the payment of income taxes under
Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
For the purposes of this section, "arts trust" means an entity
devoted to the arts and humanities which operates two or more
museums, one of which is located on a site of at least 100 acres, and
is within a facility of not less than 450,000 square feet in the
County of Los Angeles.
   An arts trust holding a license under this section may, subject to
Section 25631, sell and serve alcoholic beverages to the public.  In
addition, a licensee under this section may, subject to Section
25631, directly or indirectly, give or furnish alcoholic beverages to
persons at events for consumption on the premises.  A premises
licensed pursuant to this section shall not be entitled to a caterer'
s permit pursuant to Section 23399, and shall not be entitled to
exercise any off-sale privileges pursuant to Section 23401.
  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 that application of provisions of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Act to events sponsored by arts trusts be clarified at the
earliest possible time, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.