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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 3851

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Senators Wojahn, Warnke and Vognild

Read first time 2/7/85 and referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor.

AN ACT Relating to presence of persons eighteen years of age or older on licensed premises; and amending RCW 66.44.316.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 96, Laws of 1973 1st ex. sess. as last amended by section 1, chapter 136, Laws of 1984 and RCW 66.44.316 are each amended to read as follows:

          It is lawful for:

          (1) Professional musicians, professional disc jockeys, or professional sound or lighting technicians actively engaged in support of professional musicians or professional disc jockeys, eighteen years of age and older, to enter and to remain in any premises licensed under the provisions of Title 66 RCW, but only during and in the course of their employment as musicians, disc jockeys, or sound or lighting technicians;

          (2) Persons eighteen years of age and older performing janitorial services to enter and remain on premises licensed under the provisions of Title 66 RCW when the premises are closed but only during and in the course of their performance of janitorial services; ((and))

          (3) Employees of amusement device companies, which employees are eighteen years of age or older, to enter and to remain in any premises licensed under the provisions of Title 66 RCW, but only during and in the course of their employment for the purpose of installing, maintaining, repairing, or removing an amusement device.  For the purposes of this section amusement device means coin-operated video games, pinball machines, juke boxes, or other similar devices; and

(4) Security and law enforcement officers, and fire fighters eighteen years of age or older to enter and to remain in any premises licensed under Title 66 RCW, but only during and in the course of their official duties and only if they are not the direct employees of the licensee.

          This section shall not be construed as permitting the sale or distribution of any alcoholic beverages to any person under the age of twenty-one years.