5024.1.5.
(a) The commission shall establish and maintain a registry of legacy businesses in California. The purpose of the registry is to recognize that longstanding, community-serving businesses can be valuable nontangible historic assets of the State of California, and serve as a tool for providing state resources, as well as educational and promotional assistance to legacy businesses to encourage their viability and success.(b) A business shall be listed in the registry if nominated for listing in the registry by a county board of supervisors or city mayor, and the commission determines that the business meets all of the following criteria:
(1) (A) The business has operated in California for not less than 50 years.
(B) For the purposes of subparagraph (A), “operated” includes a business that has operated in multiple locations or with a break in continuous operation without a substantial change in mode or character of operation.
(2) The business has strongly contributed the state’s history, culture, or identity and could be considered a nontangible historic asset to the state.
(3) The business has identified to the commission the businesses’ interior tangible historic assets, exterior tangible assets, such as historic signs, as well as nontangible assets, such as traditions, craft, or culinary art forms that define the business.
(4) The business has committed to preserving and protecting the identified tangible and nontangible historic assets.
(c) The commission shall develop and adopt nomination procedures in order for a county board of supervisors or city mayor to nominate a business for listing as a California legacy business in the registry.