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                         SENATE BILL 6388

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State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By Senators Moore and Amondson

Read first time 01/20/94.  Referred to Committee on Health & Human Services.

Concerning the placement of cigarette vending machines.

    AN ACT Relating to cigarette vending machines; and amending RCW 70.155.030.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 70.155.030 and 1993 c 507 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) No person shall sell or permit to be sold any tobacco product through any device that mechanically dispenses tobacco products unless the device is located fully within premises from which minors are prohibited or in industrial worksites where minors are not employed and not less than ten feet from all entrance or exit ways to and from each premises.

(2) Persons licensed under RCW 9.46.070(10) are exempt from the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, and the requirement that cigarette vending machines shall be located not less than ten feet from entrances, or exit ways, or be located in a separate, enclosed area is waived if the operation of the cigarette vending machine is controlled by an electronic locking device that is under the direct control of a person eighteen years of age or older.

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