Alcoholic beverages: import.

Existing law permits alcoholic beverages to be brought into this state for delivery or use within the state only by common carriers and only when the alcoholic beverages are consigned to a licensed importer, as specified. Existing law specifies that a violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Existing law prohibits a railroad, sleeping car, dining car, boat, or steamship company or air common carrier carrying interstate or foreign passengers from being deemed an importer or made subject to an importer's license for bringing into the state alcoholic beverages for the purpose of sale under specified circumstances. This bill would expand that provision to include a railroad, sleeping car, dining car, boat, or steamship company or air common carrier that brings into the state alcoholic beverages for the purpose of service, as specified. The bill would also allow an air common carrier to purchase all or a portion of its alcoholic beverage inventory outside of the state and to not be deemed an importer or made subject to an importer's license for bringing alcoholic beverages by truck into the state for the purpose of sale or service within the state on the air common carrier's airplanes, as specified.