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As used in this chapter—
“discrimination” includes refusal of sale or service, employment, or of setting up different standards in any of these, or segregation, based on race, creed, color, or national origin. “place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement” means any place where food or drink is sold, or rooms rented, or charge is made for admission or service, or occupancy or use of any property or facilities, including but not limited to inns, hotels (whether conducted for the entertainment of transient guests or for the accommodation of those seeking health, recreation, or rest), taverns, roadhouses, rooming houses, restaurants, eating houses, or any places where food is sold for consumption on the premises, buffets, saloons, barrooms, parks or enclosures where food, spirituous or malt liquors, wines, soft drinks or beer are sold, bathing houses, beaches, swimming pools, barber shops, beauty parlors, soda fountains, drink parlors of all kinds, shops, stores, gardens, amusement and recreation parks, theaters, golf courses, public and private schools, clubs (if food, drink or other commodities are sold there), public conveyances operated on land or water or in the air as well as the stations or terminals thereof, or any hospital, sanitarium, dispensary, or clinic. “club” means any association of individuals banded together by their free accord for any lawful purpose.
The provisions of this chapter shall not bar any club organized and operated exclusively for pleasure, recreation or other noncommercial purposes, which is supported by or derives its funds entirely from dues and contributions from its membership. This chapter does not prohibit such lawful private clubs; it does not regulate their free selection of club membership; and does not restrict their freedoms of choice or association. This chapter does, however, prohibit such clubs, along with all other persons, from selling, leasing, or renting real estate, and from entering the field of business and commerce by selling food or drink or any other commodity or charging for the use of any beach or other club facility or service, or from using the license issued to them to do so, on any discriminatory basis whatsoever.
Whenever or wherever a club sells any of the commodities or services mentioned in this chapter either to its membership or its guests selected by itself, it is hereby declared to have entered the field of business and commerce, and, therefore, to be a place of public accommodation under the meaning of this chapter.