The COVID Project
Context, not an orderThis record is guidance or an announcement kept for context. It is not counted among the orders in force.
The record
- Jurisdiction
- California (State alcoholic-beverage regulator) · California
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- Agency guidance directing licensees to cease exercising on-sale privileges
- Issued
- 2020-03-16 Mar. 16, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-16
- End
- County-by-county reopening under the State's Resilience Roadmap (May-June 2020); bars re-closed July 1 and July 13, 2020; Blueprint tiers from August 31, 2020 (read as 2020-07-13)
- In force
- Mar. 16, 2020 to July 13, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureGathering capAlcohol and bars
- Addressees
- all licensees with on-sale retail privileges
- Functions reached
- Character
- context
- Collection
- State alcoholic-beverage regulators AGY-ST-ALCOHOL
Operative words
On March 15, 2020, the Governor directed restaurants, bars, wineries, and breweries to contribute to the statewide effort to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus.... For any licensee with on-sale retail privileges, the guidance indicates you should cease exercising those privileges immediately. Further, you should follow the directive from Public Health to cease on-restaurant seated dining.
Enforcement
License discipline (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 24200)
Notes
The alcohol regulator's own instruction to every California bar, restaurant, winery and brewery to stop on-sale service in March 2020.
Retrieval noteGuidance issued March 16, 2020 (file name carries 2020-07-01). Cite it as context and cite the underlying order, statute or emergency rule it describes as the instrument. (Bulletins whose operative text imposes a mandatory duty on licensees under the regulator's own authority are excluded from this downgrade and listed separately for review.)). brief sec. E wants the instrument's issue date); the slug date (2020-07-01) matches neither the guidance date (Mar. 16, 2020) nor the Wayback capture (Aug. 3, 2020); the file was not renamed.