Alcoholic beverages: liquor licenses: protests: prohibitions: refilling distilled spirits containers.

The Alcohol Beverage Control Act provides that protests against the issuance of a liquor license may be filed with the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The act permits the department to reject protests, except protests made by a public agency, public official, or governing body of a city or county, it determines to be false, frivolous, vexatious, or without reasonable or probable cause. This bill would make technical changes to those provisions to reflect changes made to other related laws, as provided. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains various provisions regulating the labeling and containers of alcoholic beverages within the state, including a provision prohibiting, as a misdemeanor, the refilling or causing to be refilled with distilled spirits any distilled spirits package to which a tax stamp has been affixed evidencing the payment of United States internal revenue taxes. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision to conform with current United States internal revenue procedure.