No person shall sell or furnish alcoholic liquor at retail to any person on credit or on a pass book, or order on a store, or in exchange for any goods, wares, or merchandise, or in payment for any services rendered; and if any person shall extend credit for that purpose the debt thereby attempted to be created shall not be recoverable at law; provided, that nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prevent any club from permitting checks or statements for alcoholic liquor to be signed by members or bona fide guests of members and charged to the account of those members or guests in accordance with the bylaws of the club; and provided, further, that nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prevent any hotel from permitting checks or statements for liquor to be signed by regular guests residing at the hotel and charged to the accounts of those guests; and provided, further, that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent payment by credit card or other credit device for the purchase of liquor in the original package or container for consumption off the premises.
(1983 Code, § 3-9) Penalty, see § 10.99