West Virginia Code § 60-7-8d

Where private clubs may sell and serve alcoholic liquors and
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nonintoxicating beer or nonintoxicating craft beer.
(a) With prior approval of the commissioner, a private club licensee may sell, serve, and
furnish alcoholic liquor and, if licensed to also sell, serve, and furnish nonintoxicating beer
or nonintoxicating craft beer to be consumed on premises in a legally demarcated area
which may include a temporary private outdoor dining area or temporary preivate outdoor
street dining area. A temporary private outdoor street dining area shall be approved by the
municipal government or county commission in which the licensee operrates. The
commissioner shall develop and make available an application form to facilitate the purposes
of this subsection.
(b) The private club licensee shall submit to the commissionetr: (1) the municipal or county
approval of the private outdoor dining area or private outdoor street dining area; and, (2) a
revised floorplan requesting to sell alcoholic liquors, and when licensed, for nonintoxicating
beer or nonintoxicating craft beer, subject to the commissioner's requirements, in an
approved and bounded outdoor area. The approved and bounded area need not be adjacent
to the licensee's licensed premises, but in closse proximity, for private outdoor street dining
or private outdoor dining. For purposes of this subsection, "close proximity" means an
available area within 300 feet of a licensee's licensed premises and under the licensee's
control and with right of ingress andg egress.
(c) This private outdoor dininge or private outdoor street dining may be operated in
conjunction with a private wine outdoor dining or private wine outdoor street dining area set
forth in §60-8-32a of thiLs code and nonintoxicating beer or nonintoxicating craft beer
outdoor dining or outdoor street dining set forth in §11-16-9 of this code.
(d) For purposes of this section, private outdoor dining and private outdoor street dining
include dining areas that are:
(1) WOutside and not served by an HVAC system for air handling services and use outside air;
(2) Open to the air; and
(3) Not enclosed by fixed or temporary walls; however, the commissioner may seasonally
approve a partial enclosure with up to three temporary or fixed walls.
Any area where seating is incorporated inside a permanent building with ambient air
through HVAC is not considered outdoor dining pursuant to this subsection.
(e) A private club restaurant or a private manufacturer club licensed for craft cocktail
growler sales shall provide food or a meal along with sealed craft cocktail growler sales as
set forth in this article to a patron who is (i) in-person or in-vehicle while picking up food or
a meal, or (ii) in-person having dined on food or a meal, and (iii) has ordered a sealed craft
cocktail growler to-go, subject to verification that the purchasing person is 21 years of age
or older, and not visibly, or noticeably intoxicated, and as otherwise specified in this article.

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