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Cal. Penal Code § 172b

Current through 2025–2026 Regular Session (leginfo weekly dump, 2026-07-12)

Part of Chapter 7: Other Offenses Against Public Justice, California Penal Code.

Full text of Cal. Penal Code § 172b

Statutory text current through the 2025–2026 Regular Session (leginfo weekly dump, 2026-07-12). This publication reproduces the official statutory text; it is not the official statutes of the State of California.

Cal. Penal Code § 172bPrimary source, current through the 2025–2026 Regular Session (leginfo weekly dump, 2026-07-12)
1. Every person who, within one and one-half miles of the boundaries of the grounds belonging to the University of California at Los Angeles on which the principal administrative offices of the university are located, as such boundaries were established as of July 1, 1959, sells or exposes for sale any intoxicating liquor, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100), or by imprisonment for not less than 50 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. 2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the sale or exposing or offering for sale of ale, porter, wine, similar fermented malt or vinous liquor or fruit juice containing one-half of 1 percent or more of alcohol by volume and not more than 3.2 percent of alcohol by weight nor the sale or exposing or offering for sale of beer. 3. Distances provided in this section shall be measured not by airline but by following the shortest road or roads connecting the points in question.

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