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§ 24.0501   Possession of Open Alcoholic Beverage Container on Premises of or on Sidewalk Adjacent to Premises of Retail Package Licensee; Licensee Posting.
   (a)   It shall be unlawful and an infraction for any person who has in his or her possession any bottle, can or other receptacle containing any alcoholic beverage which has been opened, or a seal broken, or the contents of which have been partially removed, to enter, be, or remain on the posted premises of, including the posted parking lot immediately adjacent to, any retail package off-sale alcoholic beverage licensee licensed pursuant to Business and Professions Code §§ 23000 et seq., or on any public sidewalk immediately adjacent to the licensed and posted premises. As used in this Section, POSTED PREMISES means those premises which are subject to licensure under any retail package off-sale alcoholic beverage license, the parking lot immediately adjacent to the licensed premises and any public sidewalk immediately adjacent to the licensed premises on which clearly visible notices indicate to the patrons of the licensee and parking lots and the persons on the public sidewalk, that the provisions of this Section are applicable. The provisions of this Section do not apply to a private residential parking lot which is immediately adjacent to the posted premises.
   (b)   All retail package off-sale alcoholic beverage licensees licensed pursuant to Business and Professions Code §§ 23000 et seq. shall install and maintain signs on the licensed premises, clearly visible to the patrons of the licensee and to persons in or on any parking lot or public sidewalk immediately adjacent to the licensed premises, which notify all such persons that the provisions of Subdivision (a) of this Section are applicable. Any licensee violating any provision of this Subdivision shall be guilty of an infraction.
(Ord. 3391, passed - -1990)