(a) “Club” unless otherwise modified, means an association of persons, organized for the promotion of some common object, but not including associations organized for any commercial or business purpose the object of which is money or profit which club must be in such location as may be suitable and adequate for the reasonable and comfortable use and accommodation of its members and their guests, provided that such club shall be chartered under, or a duly recognized affiliate of, a national service association or organization, or such other nonprofit organization having at least one hundred members owning or leasing and maintaining a bona fide regular, standard golf course consisting of at least nine holes, or a bona fide regular tennis club consisting of at least six standard tennis courts, either of which shall have a clubhouse, locker rooms and attendant facilities and maintaining and operating a restaurant equipped to serve one hundred persons full course meals at one time; or a bona fide club of at least one hundred members that has been in continuous active existence, at the time of its application for licensing, for a period of four years in Clark County and that owns or leases and maintains a restaurant equipped to serve one hundred persons full course meals at one time. A club license is a bar operation for retail liquor sales.
(b) Notwithstanding the above restrictions, an existing retail liquor licensee may operate, on a portion of their property physically separated from the existing business, a club specializing in the sale, service, and consumption of alcoholic beverages provided that:
(1) Minors are prohibited from membership, entry, and employment in such club;
(2) Membership to such club must be for periods of at least one year;
(3) The club portion of the business must maintain an up-to-date list of all club members that is readily available for review by representatives of the director of the department of business license;
(4) The primary retail business must be open to the public at all times the club is open to members;
(5) The club must be open to inspection to representatives of the director of the department of business license at all times the primary business is open to the public;
(6) The club is not held out to the public nor used as a banquet facility; and
(7) The type of alcohol service may not exceed that which is authorized by the type of liquor license held by the licensee.
(c) Only members and their bona fide guests shall be permitted service in such club. (Ord. L-233-06 § 2, 2006: Ord. L-232-05 § 14, 2005)