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                                  HOUSE BILL 1094

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Appelwick and Miller.

 

Read first time January 18, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.Permitting the purchase of alcoholic beverages with personal credit cards.


     AN ACT Relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages; and amending RCW 66.16.040.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

     Sec. 1.  RCW 66.16.040 and 1981 1st ex.s. c 5 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:

     Except as otherwise provided by law, an employee in a state liquor store or agency may sell liquor to any person of legal age to purchase alcoholic beverages and may also sell to holders of permits such liquor as may be purchased under such permits.

     Where there may be a question of a person's right to purchase liquor by reason of age, such person shall be required to present any one of the following officially issued cards of identification which shows his/her correct age and bears his/her signature and photograph:

     (1) Liquor control authority card of identification of any state or province of Canada.

     (2) Driver's license, instruction permit or identification card of any state or province of Canada, or "identicard" issued by the Washington state department of licensing pursuant to RCW 46.20.117.

     (3) United States active duty military identification.

     (4) Passport.

     (5) Merchant Marine identification card issued by the United States Coast Guard.

The board may adopt such regulations as it deems proper covering the acceptance of such cards of identification.

     No liquor sold under this section shall be delivered until the purchaser has paid for the liquor in cash.  The purchaser may use his or her personal credit card to buy liquor so long as that card does not rely upon the credit of the state, as prohibited by Article VIII, section 5 of the state Constitution.