ARTICLE VIII GUESTS
SECTION I – WHEN ALLOWED (a) The Board in its sole discretion may establish the terms and conditions upon which a person may be a guest of a member and use the facilities of the Club including determining that a person may not be a guest at the Club. Any member who brings a guest to the Club in violation of such terms and conditions shall be subject to suspension or expulsion under ARTICLE II, SECTION III hereof; (b) The Membership Committee, upon request of a member of the Club may grant a temporary membership to non-members of the Club of the age of 10 or over who reside 90 or more miles from the Club, for a period not to exceed three (3) weeks in a calendar year; each such temporary member shall be duly registered in a register, which at all times shall be open to the inspection of the Delaware Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission and the Internal Revenue Service and which shall also describe the facilities of the Club which are open to such temporary member and the time period for which any such temporary member is to be a guest of the Club or of a member of the Club and; (c) Members of the Club shall be responsible for the conduct of and all indebtedness to the Club incurred by a temporary member as herein above defined or any other guest, invited or introduced by them. (d) The Membership Committee, after reviewing a written request from a member, may grant Club privileges to a Domestic Partner. A Domestic Partner must meet the following conditions: the domestic partnership has been in effect for at least two (2) years; both partners are each other’s sole domestic partner and intend to remain so indefinitely; neither partner is married (either legally or by common law) to, or legally separated from, anyone else; both partners reside together and intend to do so indefinitely; both partners consider each other jointly responsible for each other’s common welfare; and both partners shall certify in writing that they are in a domestic partnership. The member shall notify the Club in writing within 30 days of the termination of the Domestic partnership or failure to meet any of the foregoing conditions. Failure to do so may subject the member to discipline. Domestic Partners and any eligible children ages 10 through 24 are permitted to use any of the Club facilities equal to that of their sponsoring member including the ability to introduce guests. In lieu of guest fees and frequency limitations, Domestic Partners will be charged a fee equal to that of the Associate level dues of their sponsoring member’s classification. Domestic Partner’s children, ages 10 through 24, will be charged a fee equal to that of the 10 through 24 dues category and; (e) Members of the Club shall be responsible for the conduct of and all indebtedness to the Club incurred by their domestic partner and the domestic partner’s children as herein above defined or any other guest, invited or introduced by them.
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