Club Licenses
Cal. BPC § 23428.20
California Statutes
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a) For the purposes of this article, “club” also means any bona fide nonprofit corporation that has been in existence for not less than nine years, has more than 8,500 memberships issued and outstanding to owners of condominiums and owners of memberships in stock cooperatives, and owns, leases, operates, or maintains recreational facilities for its members. (
b) For the purposes of this article, “club” also means any bona fide nonprofit corporation that was formed as a condominium homeowners’ association, has at least members, has served daily meals to its members and guests for a period of not less than years, owns or leases, operates, and maintains a clubroom or rooms for its membership, has an annual fee of not less than nine hundred dollars ($900) per year per member, and has as a condition of membership that one member of each household be at least years of age. (
c) Section and the numerical limitation of
Section shall not apply to a club defined in this section. (
d) No license shall be issued pursuant to this
section to any club that withholds membership or denies facilities or services to any person on account of any basis listed in subdivision (
a) or (
d) of
Section of the Government Code, as those bases are defined in Sections 12926, 12926.1, subdivision (
m) and paragraph (1) of subdivision (
p) of
Section 12955, and
Section 12955.2 of the Government Code. (
e) Notwithstanding subdivision (d), with respect to familial status, subdivision (
d) shall not be construed to apply to housing for older persons, as defined in
Section 12955.9 of the Government Code. With respect to familial status, nothing in subdivision (
d) shall be construed to affect Sections 51.2, 51.3, 51.4, 51.10, 51.11, and 799.5 of the Civil Code, relating to housing for senior citizens. Subdivision (
d) of
Section 51,
Section 4760, and
Section of the Civil Code, and subdivisions (n), (o), and (
p) of