Brentwood, CA Gambling & Gaming: Card Room Licensing (2026)

56 (Pool Halls and Cardrooms) defines a "cardroom" as a room where people play cards in connection with selling cigars, tobacco, soft drinks or alcoholic beverages, whether or not a rental or fee is charged for the tables. 020 sets the license fee at one hundred dollars per calendar year, or any part of a year, for each card table, with no quarterly licenses issued for card tables (pool and billiard tables are billed separately at two dollars fifty cents per quarter). The license does not include the right to sell tobacco, confections, soft drinks, lunches or run any other business on the premises without a separate business license.

on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. If the cardroom operates alongside a bar licensed for on-sale alcohol, any connection between the bar and the cardroom must be locked, sealed, or otherwise closed off in a manner acceptable to the chief of police. 040 bars anyone under eighteen from entering a cardroom unless it is run as a family-oriented business that serves no alcohol, or the minor enters on an errand with a parent's or guardian's consent (and may not loiter). , separately requires state-level licensing of gambling establishments; the city ordinance is the local authorizing and hours-of-operation layer that sits alongside it.