{"data":{"id":"us-ca/bpc-19964","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"BPC § 19964","heading":"","body":"No city, county, or city and county may grant, or permit to continue in effect, a license to deal, operate, carry on, conduct, maintain, or expose for play any controlled game to any applicant or holder of a local license unless the applicant or local licensee is an owner licensee as defined in this chapter. However, the issuance of a state gambling license to a person imposes no requirements upon the city, county, or city and county to issue a license to the person.","path":["Business and Professions Code - BPC","DIVISION 8. SPECIAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS [18400. - 22949.92.2.]","CHAPTER 5. The Gambling Control Act [19800. - 19987.]","ARTICLE 13. Local Governments [19960. - 19966.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"e7f3df4a387521653baba09cbf96bad81e9f1dbfa339f69057fbef6be8c644ca","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/bpc-19963","next":"us-ca/bpc-19965"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}