HRS §281-34
When the state can suspend a club's liquor license
If the liquor commission thinks a club license is being used mainly to sell liquor, or the club is not really operating as a club, the commission can suspend the license right away. A hearing will be held later to decide if the license should be taken away permanently.
The statute, as written — Sham operation under club license; supervision
Whenever the liquor commission is of the opinion that any holder of a club license is not conducting the business under such license in good faith, or that the premises thereof are not continuously kept suitably arranged, furnished, equipped, and actually and reputably operated as a club, or that the apparent or claimed manner of operation of the club as such is only nominal or pretended or amounts to a sham or subterfuge under which liquor is being sold as the principal object of the club, the license may be summarily suspended pending a hearing why it should not be revoked. [L Sp 1933, c 40, §14; RL 1935, §2583; am L 1937, c 211, §9; RL 1945, §7235; RL 1955, §159-33; HRS §281-34]
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