BILL NUMBER: AB 2520	CHAPTERED  09/11/00

	CHAPTER   384
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 11, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 8, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 25, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 24, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 14, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 1, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 3, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Thomson
   (Principal coauthor:  Assembly Member Wiggins)
   (Principal coauthor:  Senator Chesbro)
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Aanestad, Corbett, Jackson, Keeley,
and Mazzoni)
   (Coauthor:  Senator Johannessen)

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2000

   An act to add Section 23399.4 to the Business and Professions
Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2520, Thomson.  Alcoholic beverages:  permits:  winegrowers.
   Existing law permits the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
to issue special temporary licenses and permits to various entities
for limited purposes.
   This bill would permit the department to issue a certified farmers'
market sales permit to allow a licensee under a winegrower's license
to sell wine produced and bottled by the winegrower at certified
farmers' market locations, under specified conditions.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 23399.4 is added to the Business and
Professions Code, to read:
   23399.4.  (a) A licensee under a winegrower's license may apply to
the department for a certified farmers' market sales permit.  A
certified farmers' market sales permit shall authorize the licensee,
a member of the licensee's family, or an employee of the licensee to
sell wine produced and bottled by the winegrower entirely from grapes
grown by the winegrower at a certified farmers' market at any place
in the state approved by the department.  The permit may be issued
for up to 12 months but shall not be valid for more than one day a
week at any single specified certified farmers' market location.  A
winegrower may hold more than one certified farmers' market sales
permit.  The department shall notify the city, county, or city and
county and applicable law enforcement agency where the certified
farmers' market is to be held of the issuance of the permit.  A
"certified farmers' market" means a location operated in accordance
with Chapter 10.5 (commencing with Section 47000) of Division 17 of
the Food and Agricultural Code, and the regulations adopted pursuant
thereto.
   (b) The licensed winegrower eligible for the certified farmers'
market sales permit shall not sell more than 5,000 gallons of wine
annually pursuant to all certified farmers' market sales permits held
by any single winegrower.  The licensed winegrower shall report
total certified farmers' market wine sales to the department on an
annual basis.  The report may be included within the annual report of
production submitted to the department, or pursuant to any
regulation as may be prescribed by the department.
   (c) The fee for any permit issued pursuant to this section shall
be forty dollars ($40).
   (d) All money collected as fees pursuant to this section shall be
deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund as provided in Section
25761.