Alcoholic beverage control: on-sale beer and wine licenses: bona fide public eating place: public schoolhouses.

(1) The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act authorizes the issuance of an on-sale beer and wine eating place license, which authorizes the sale of beer and wine for consumption on or off the licensed premises, provided the licensee maintains the licensed premises as a bona fide public eating place, as defined, and meets other specified requirements. This bill would expand the definition of bona fide public eating place, for purposes of the on-sale beer and wine eating place license, to include a cooking school that provides courses and instructions in the preparation of food and maintains suitable kitchen facilities, as provided. The bill would make other related changes to a provision containing compliance requirements imposed upon bona fide eating places for which an on-sale license has been issued. (2) Existing law generally prohibits the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages at a public schoolhouse or any grounds thereof. Existing law provides that this prohibition does not apply if the alcoholic beverage is possessed, consumed, or used during an event at a community center owned by a community services district, as provided. This bill would expand that exception to this prohibition to include events held at a community center owned by a city. (3) This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 25608 of the Business and Professions Code, proposed by AB 319, to be operative only if AB 319 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective January 1, 2012, and this bill is chaptered last. (4) The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that a violation of specified provisions of the act is punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would expand an existing crime by imposing requirements on additional licensees under the act; thus, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.