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                                                      HOUSE BILL 1833

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Jacobsen and Appelwick

 

Read first time 02/10/93.  Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

 

Conforming statutes relating to firearm handling by minors.


          AN ACT Relating to firearm handling by minors; and reenacting and amending RCW 26.28.080.

 

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

 

        Sec. 1.  RCW 26.28.080 and 1987 c 250 s 2 and 1987 c 204 s 1 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:

          Every person who:

          (1) Shall admit to or allow to remain in any concert saloon, or in any place owned, kept, or managed by him or her where intoxicating liquors are sold, given away or disposed of‑-except a restaurant or dining room, any person under the age of eighteen years; or,

          (2) Shall admit to, or allow to remain in any public pool or billiard hall, or in any place of entertainment injurious to health or morals, owned, kept or managed by him or her, any person under the age of eighteen years; or,

          (3) Shall suffer or permit any such person to play any game of skill or chance, in any such place, or in any place adjacent thereto, or to be or remain therein, or admit or allow to remain in any reputed house of prostitution or assignation, or in any place where opium or any preparation thereof, is smoked, or where any narcotic drug is used, any persons under the age of eighteen years; or,

          (4) Shall sell or give, or permit to be sold or given to any person under the age of eighteen years any cigar, cigarette, cigarette paper or wrapper, or tobacco in any form; or

          (5) Shall sell, or give, or permit to be sold or given to any person under the age of eighteen years, any revolver or pistol, except as permitted by RCW 9.41.240;

          Shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

          It shall be no defense to a prosecution for a violation of this section that the person acted, or was believed by the defendant to act, as agent or representative of another.

 


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