Alcoholic beverages: possession: Sacramento River.

(1) The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act regulates the possession, sale, and consumption of alcohol. The act makes it a crime to violate any of its provisions. This bill would prohibit specified persons on certain portions of the Sacramento River from possessing a container, as defined, with an alcoholic beverage during the summer holiday periods that the Glenn and Butte County Boards of Supervisors prohibit the consumption of an alcoholic beverage or possession of an open alcoholic beverage container on the land portions along those portions of the river. The bill would require Glenn and Butte Counties to provide notice on the land portions along the Sacramento River that this conduct is punishable as an infraction. Because this bill would create a new crime and require Glenn and Butte Counties to provide notice on the land portions along the river that this conduct is punishable as an infraction, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute. (2) 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.