Persons who, under cover of associations governed by the loi du 1er juillet 1901 or by the local law maintained in force in the Haut-Rhin, Bas-Rhin and Moselle departments, serve meals, sell drinks for consumption on the premises or organise shows or entertainment of any kind are subject to all the tax obligations of traders and to the provisions relating to the administrative regulation of pubs or the entertainment police.
When their operation is not of a commercial nature, private clubs are not subject to the administrative regulations governing public houses, if they exclusively serve non-alcoholic drinks, wine, beer, cider, perry, mead, natural sweet wines benefiting from the tax regime for wines and if their members are the only ones allowed to consume.
On the advice of the mayor of the municipality and on the proposal of the prefect, a full licence, attached to the club and non-transferable, may be issued to private clubs duly declared on 1 January 1948 and having, on that date, fifteen uninterrupted years of operation, the years 1939 to 1945 not being taken into account in this count. These clubs may benefit from the provisions of the second paragraph.