SECTIONS 23450-23455 - California Statutes

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE

SECTION 23450-23455

23450. As used in this article, "veteran" means any person who has
served in the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue Marine
Service, or as an active nurse in the service of the American Red
Cross, or in the Army and Navy Nurse Corps in time of war, or in any
expedition of the armed forces of the United States, or who served in
one of such services during the period September 16, 1940, to
December 7, 1941, and received a discharge under conditions other
than dishonorable.

23451. Any post, chapter, camp, or other local unit, composed
solely of veterans, of an organization composed solely of veterans
which has been chartered by the Congress of the United States for
patriotic, fraternal, or benevolent purposes, and which post,
chapter, camp, or other local unit has, as the owner, lessee, or
occupant thereof, operated an establishment for any such purpose for
not less than one year, is a bona fide club within the meaning of
Section 22 of Article XX of the Constitution and of this division.

23452. The department may issue one veterans' club license to any
post, chapter, camp or other local unit described in Section 23451
for the establishment, if otherwise satisfactory, where the post,
chapter, camp, or other local unit maintains its club.

23452.5. The department may also issue one veterans' club license
to any veterans' memorial association which is a nonprofit private
corporation organized for patriotic, fraternal, or benevolent
purposes, composed solely of veterans, and which has more than 18,000
bona fide regular members, and which owns, leases, maintains, or
operates a clubhouse and has continuously operated a clubhouse for
not less than three years.

23453. The holder of a veterans' club license may exercise all of
the rights and privileges permitted by an on-sale general license but
may sell and serve alcoholic beverages for consumption within the
licensed establishment only to bona fide members of the veterans'
organization and their bona fide guests. A veterans' club license is
not transferable to another person from the person to whom issued or
by whom renewed. The provisions of Article 2 of Chapter 5 of this
division do not apply to the issuance of veterans' club licenses.

23454. No member and no officer, agent, or employee of a veterans'
club licensee shall be paid or shall directly or indirectly receive,
in the form of salary or other compensation, any of the profits from
the distribution or sale of alcoholic beverages to the licensee or to
the members of the licensee or its guests, beyond the amount of such
salary as may be fixed and voted at any regular meeting by the
members of the licensee or by its governing body out of the general
revenue of the local unit.

23455. The department may revoke any license issued pursuant to
this article whenever, in the judgment of the department, the
licensee ceases to operate as a bona fide club.