Over Service Enforcement

Safe New Year’s celebrations

California

If you plan on heading to a bar or restaurant this New Year’s, state officials want you to take it easy on the booze. Undercover agents with the State Alcohol Beverage Control will be working overtime, looking for violators. Serving people who appear to be intoxicated is called “Over serving” a violation of state liquor code. Undercover Beverage Control agents will be heading to restaurants, some even posing as drunk patrons, looking for some establishments who serve someone who has had too much.