California · Business and Professions Code - BPC

BPC §25601: Every licensee, or agent or employee of a licensee, who keeps, permits to be used, or suffers to be used, in conjunction with a licensed premises, any disorderly house or place in which people abide o

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

A licensee or their agent commits a misdemeanor by permitting a disorderly house or place at a licensed premises that disturbs the neighborhood or harms public morals, health, convenience, or safety.

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Every licensee, or agent or employee of a licensee, who keeps, permits to be used, or suffers to be used, in conjunction with a licensed premises, any disorderly house or place in which people abide or to which people resort, to the disturbance of the neighborhood, or in which people abide or to which people resort for purposes which are injurious to the public morals, health, convenience, or safety, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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