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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>57688</law_id><section_number>4.1-316</section_number><catch_line>Keeping or drinking alcoholic beverages upon premises of club; penalty</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="4.1">Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Alcoholic Beverage Control Act</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Prohibited Practices; Penalties; Procedural Matters</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Prohibited Practices Generally</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No person operating a <span class="dictionary">club</span> for profit or otherwise, either public or private, shall (i) keep or allow to be kept any <span class="dictionary">alcoholic beverages</span>, either by himself or any other person, upon the premises or (ii) permit the drinking of any <span class="dictionary">alcoholic beverages</span> upon the premises, unless he is <span class="dictionary">licensed</span> to <span class="dictionary">sell</span> <span class="dictionary">alcoholic beverages</span>.
		Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 4-61.1; 1954, c. 147; 1993, c. 866.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
