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                                 SENATE BILL 5520

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

 

By Senators Newhouse, Jesernig, Murray, Matson, Skratek, Vognild, Bluechel, McCaslin, West, Hayner, Stratton, Patterson, Gaspard, Rinehart, Bauer and Saling.

 

Read first time February 5, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.Creating permits for wine shipments to and from individuals.


     AN ACT Relating to shipments of wine; and amending RCW 66.12.120.

 

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

 

     Sec. 1.  RCW 66.12.120 and 1975 1st ex.s. c 173 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of Title 66 RCW, a person twenty-one years of age or over may be authorized by the board to bring into the state of Washington from another state a reasonable amount of alcoholic beverages for personal or household use only upon payment of an equivalent markup and tax as would be applicable to the purchase of the same or similar liquor at retail from a state liquor store.  The board shall adopt appropriate regulations pursuant to chapter 34.05 RCW for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this section.

     (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of Title 66 RCW, an individual or licensee in a state which affords Washington licensees or individuals an equal reciprocal shipping privilege may ship, for personal use and not for resale, not more than two cases of wine, with no more than nine liters each case, per month to any state resident age twenty-one or older.  Delivery of a shipment pursuant to this section shall not be deemed to constitute a sale in this state.

     The shipping container of any wine sent into or out of this state under this section shall be clearly labeled to indicate that the package cannot be delivered to a person under twenty-one years of age or to an intoxicated person.