Cal. Code Regs. tit. 4 § 64.2

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 50, December 13, 2024
Section 64.2 - Premises Designation
(a) Premises and Activity Diagram.
(1) Prior to the issuance or transfer of a license, the applicant shall file with the department, on forms furnished by the department, a complete detailed diagram of the proposed premises wherein the license privileges will be exercised.
(2) The diagram will show all boundaries, dimensions, entrances and exits, interior partitions, walls, rooms, and common or shared entryways. Each room and/or partitioned area within the premises area shown will include a brief statement or description of the principal activity to be conducted therein, e.g., office, storeroom, toilets, bar, cardroom, billiards, etc. If any described activity shown thereon is not, or will not be, conducted under the direct control, supervision and ownership of the alcoholic beverage licensee, the name and full identification of any person or persons who own, direct, control and/or supervise the activity will be furnished to the department together with a full disclosure of any agreement, written or oral, between the licensee and said person.
(3) If the area proposed to be licensed uses, either as a principal or secondary means of public ingress and/or egress, any common door or common passage with any other occupant of the same or adjacent buildings or rooms, a statement of the general entities conducted and the identification of the persons or entities conducting said activities will be made on the diagram.
(b) Substantial Physical Changes of Premises or Character of Premises.
(1) After issuance or transfer of a license, the licensees shall make no changes or alterations of the interior physical arrangements which materially or substantially alter the premises or the usage of the premises from the plan contained in the diagram on file with his application, unless and until prior written assent of the department has been obtained.

For purposes of this rule, material or substantial physical changes of the premises, or in the usage of the premises, shall include, but are not limited to, the following:

(A) Substantial increase or decrease in the total area of the licensed premises previously diagrammed.
(B) Creation of a common entryway, doorway, passage or other such means of public ingress and/or egress, when such common entryway, doorway, passage or other such means of public ingress and/or egress, when such common entryway, doorway or passage permits access to the licensed premises area from or between adjacent or abutting buildings, rooms, or premises.
(C) Where the proposed change will create in the licensed premises an area, or room, or rooms, whether or not partitioned, or in some other manner delimited and defined wherein activities of any nature not directly related to the sale of alcoholic beverages will be conducted by a person, persons, or entity not under the direct control, supervision and direction of the licensee.
(2) Where the proposed change will create in the licensed premises area, or room, or rooms, or any portion of the premises, whereby the licensee, or the owner of the real property wherein the license privileges are exercised, creates or purports to create in any persons or entity by license, easement, grant sublease, subassignment or similar means an interest in which any person or entity will conduct any activity not directly related to the sale and service of alcoholic beverages not previously conducted on the premises.
(c) Application to Winegrower's and Brandy Manufacturer's Premises. The provisions of this rule shall not apply to the premises of a winegrower or brandy manufacturer, except for those portions of such premises where sales at retail are made or wine tasting activities are conducted.

Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 4, § 64.2

1. New section filed 9-23-71; designated effective 10-26-71 (Register 71, No. 39).

Note: Authority cited: Section 25750, Business and Professions Code and Section 22 of Article XX, California Constitution. Reference: Sections 23958 and 24040, Business and Professions Code.

1. New section filed 9-23-71; designated effective 10-26-71 (Register 71, No. 39).