“Club” means a corporation or association which is the owner, lessee, or occupant of an establishment operated solely for objects of a social or athletic nature but not for pecuniary gain, having a bona fide membership list, and the majority of the members of which pay dues at least once in every year, and the property as well as the advantages of which belong to the members, and which sells alcoholic beverages only to its members and its bona fide guests. A guest is defined as a person who is actually a houseguest, or a person whose presence as a guest is in response to a specific invitation for the special occasion.
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 23037
General Provisions and Definitions
Known as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act
The act spans §§ 23000–25762 (737 sections).
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Rogers v. Ponti-Peterson Post 1720 Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States of America, Inc. (1993)
Most recently applied in Rogers v. Ponti-Peterson Post 1720 Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States of America, Inc. (February 1993)
Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 618.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.