Chap. 287.—An ACT to regulate the storage and distribution of ardent spirits
by persons, firm, corporation or clubs in the city of Winchester and the
county of Frederick.

Approved March 16, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be
unlawful for any person, firm, association, corporation or social club,
directly or indirectly, to keep, maintain, or in any manner to aid or abet
in keeping or maintaining, within the city of Winchester or the county
of Frederick, any of the following places, which are hereby declared to
be unlawful drinking places:

(a) Any place or resort where ardent spirits are kept to be drunk
upon or about the premises by persons resorting there for that purpose.
(b) Any club room or other place in which are received or kept for the
purpose of barter or sale, use or gift, as a beverage, or for distribution
or division among the members of any club, association of persons or
guests of such club or association by any means whatever. (c) Any club
room or room of any association of persons in which said ardent spirits
are kept or stored for the purpose of being drunk or consumed by the
members of such club or other association of persons or their guests, or
others on the premises, or at or near the place where such ardent spirits
are kept or stored.

(e) Any place adjacent to or near the premises of any club, corpora-
tion or association or other combination of persons to which members or
their guests or others by the permission of members resort for the pur-
pose of drinking the prohibited liquors and beverages or any of them
that are kept at or near such place.
2. No person shall, within the city of Winchester or county of Fred-
erick, directly or indirectly, keep or maintain by himself, or by associating
or combining with others, any club room or other place in which ardent
spirits is received or kept for the purpose of selling, bartering, giving
away or otherwise furnishing for distribution or division among the mem-
bers of any club or association by any means whatsoever, and no person
shall sell, barter, give away or otherwise furnish, distribute, divide any
ardent spirits so received or kept.

3. No person shall keep or maintain at the room of any club or asso-
ciation any place or locker for the keeping of ardent spirits for his own
use or for the use of others, and no person shall at the rooms of such club
or association keep ardent spirits for the use of himself or others.

4. All mixtures, preparations and liquids which will produce intoxica-
tion shall be deemed ardent spirits within the meaning of this act, and
this definition shall include beer, malt liquors, whiskey, wine, brandy, or
any mixture thereof, fruits preserved in ardent spirits, alcoholic bitters.

5. Any person, firm or corporation or club who shall violate the pro-
vision of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than
five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each offense.

6. Neither this act nor other like provisions of any law shall apply
to any corporation chartered and organized as a social club prior to the
date on which the city of Winchester became no-license territory and
which shall comply with the provisions of section one hundred and forty-
two of an act approved the sixteenth day of April, nineteen hundred and
three, entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government
and public free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt, and
to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section one hun-
dred and eighty-nine of the Constitution, as amended by an act
approved the nineteenth of February, nineteen hundred and four, enti-
tled an act to amend and re-enact sections seventy-five to one hun-
dred and forty-seven, inclusive, of an act approved the sixteenth of April,
nineteen and three, entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the
government and public free schools and to pay the interest on the public
debt, and to provide a special tax for pensions as authorized by section
one hundred and eighty-nine of the Constitution: provided, that the said
corporation shall not be required to pay the taxes as therein required,
but it is herein declared to be the true intent and meaning of said section
one hundred and forty-two, with respect to the granting of a charter to
any such corporation where local option prevails, that no social club shall
be chartered in such territory and that the charter of every such club
is void.

Every such corporation chartered and organized prior to the date
local option took effect in the city of Winchester shall, upon the passage
of this act, enter into bond in the penalty of two thousand dollars before
the corporation court of the city of Winchester, payable to the Common-
wealth and conditioned upon the faithful compliance by said corpora-
tion with al] the provisions of law prohibiting or regulating the sale and
dispensing of ardent spirits. The failure on the part of any such cor-
poration to comply with any provisions of said laws shall work a for-
feiture of this bond. The court or justice trying any case under this
act shall, wherever judgment or conviction is rendered against such
social club, declare the charter of such corporation forfeited. There
shall be a right of appeal in regular course to the supreme court of ap-
peals of Virginia for said corporation, and the court rendering final
judgment of forfeiture against such corporation shall so certify to the
State corporation commission, to be there entered of record. Such cor-
poration, through its secretary and president, shall furnish, once a
month, under oath, to the clerk of the corporation court of said city, a
list of its members, and shall furnish under oath once a year imme-
diately after its annual meeting, to said clerk, a list of the officers for
ensuing year, which list shall at all times be open to public inspection.
Every such corporation shall be one which has and does collect an en-
trance fee of not less than ten dollars and dues of not less than one dollar
per month. Once a year, at such time as the judge of said court shall
prescribe, and at such other times as the judge shall require, it shall
satisfy the court that in every respect it is a bona fide social club corpora-
tion complying strictly with all the provisions of law; and at such hear-
ing any person shall have the right to be heard by said court and offer
evidence in regard to the management and conduct of said corporation,
and if said court is not fully satisfied that the corporation has fully
complied with all the provisions and requirements of this section, then it
shall so enter of record; and thereafterwards the provisions of this act
shall apply to said corporation and the provisions of this section shall
not apply, and there shall be a right of appeal to either party.

?. This act shall not apply in case the said city of Winchester shal]
ceasé to be no-license territory.