1. (a) In addition to the requirements for an application for a regular private club permit, including an ordinance approving the operation of the private club by the governing body of the county or municipality in which the club is located, the applicant for a permit issued under this section must elect to apply as either a hotel or as a large event facility private club.

2. (b) If application is being made for a hotel private club permit as authorized by Acts 2011, No. 1194, the application for the hotel permit must include, in addition to information already required for a private club application, a description of the hotel facility, which shows at a minimum that the hotel meets the following additional requirements:

   1. (1) The space leased must have at least eighty (80) lodging rooms and five thousand square feet (5,000 ft²) of public meeting, banquet, or restaurant space that is leased to the nonprofit corporation;

   2. (2)

      1. (A) Additional areas, other than the bar area, in which the private club hotel applicant desires the ability to serve alcoholic beverages to members and their guests must be shown on a floor plan.
      2. (B) Such additional areas may include:

3. (i) Sleeping rooms;

   1. (ii) Pool-side bars;

      1. (iii) Banquet facilities;

         1. (iv) Restaurants;
         2. (v) Lobbies;
         3. (vi) Exhibit halls;
         4. (vii) Patios; and
         5. (viii) Outdoor gardens; and

   2. (3) If the hotel desires to offer room service, either by the use of in-room hospitality units as authorized by Section 5.51 [repealed] or by room service, the floor plan submitted must clearly identify those rooms which are leased by the nonprofit corporation.

      1. (c) Additional information or requirements for a large event facility under Acts 2011, No. 1194, shall include the following:
   3. (1) The large event facility must serve full and complete meals and food on the premises;

   4. (2)

      1. (A) The large event facility must have one (1) or more places for food service on the premises with a seating capacity for not fewer than five hundred (500) people and must employ a sufficient number and kind of employees to serve meals and food on the premises capable of handling at least five hundred (500) people.
      2. (B) However, the food service requirement and employee requirement may be supplied either through the large event facility permittee or through one (1) or more independent contractors;
   5. (3) The large event facility may serve alcoholic beverages on the premises at one (1) or more places only on days complete meals and food are served at one (1) or more places on the premises;
   6. (4) The large event facility applicant must show that the space leased has ten thousand square feet (10,000 ft²) of interior or exterior public meeting, banquet, exhibit hall, or restaurant space;

   7. (5)

      1. (A) The applicant for the large event facility permit shall list, and show on its floor plan, all areas of the large event facility where alcoholic beverage service is being requested.
      2. (B) This includes outdoor areas, exhibit halls, patios, lobbies, restaurants that may be within the large event facility, and any other portion of the large event facility property where alcoholic beverage service is desired.
      3. (C) Areas where alcoholic beverage service is desired must be leased by the nonprofit corporation that is making application for the private club permit; and

   8. (6) Attachments to the application must show that the large event facility permit will be a facility that will house convention center activity, tourism activity, trade show and product display and related meeting activity, or any other similar large meeting or attendance activity as required by Acts 2011, No. 1194.

      1. (d)
   9. (1) The applicant for the hotel or the large event facility must show, on the floor plan, an entryway where members of the public may enter the property before they are offered the opportunity to become members of the nonprofit corporation.
   10. (2) Both members of the public and members of the private club and bona fide guests of a member of the private club may freely move about the private club property, but only members and guests of a member of the nonprofit corporation may receive alcoholic beverage service from the private club.

Codification Notes: Subsection (a) as promulgated prior to codification into the Code of Arkansas Rules as follows: "(Amended 9-20-17)" This section as promulgated prior to codification into the Code of Arkansas Rules provided as follows: "(Adopted 8-16-11)"