California CodesBusiness and Professions Code - BPCDivision 8 — Special Business RegulationsChapter 5 — The Gambling Control ActArticle 3 — RegulationsSection 19846

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in subdivision (b), a gambling enterprise that ejects or excludes an individual based upon Section 19844 or 19845 is not subject to civil liability for a mistake as to the grounds for ejecting or excluding a person if the ejection or exclusion was based upon a reasonable and good faith belief, after a reasonable investigation, that these sections applied to the individual in question.

(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a gambling enterprise may not be relieved from liability for any damages arising from the means of ejection or exclusion.

Notes

Limits civil liability for a gambling enterprise that mistakenly ejects or excludes someone under the referenced provisions when, after a reasonable investigation, it reasonably and in good faith believed those provisions applied. The protection does not relieve the enterprise from liability for damages arising from the means used to eject or exclude the person.

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