AN ACT Relating to
studying and testing the use of credit cards in state liquor stores; amending
RCW 66.16.040 and 66.08.026; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 66.16.040 and 1995 c
16 s 1 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 armed
forces identification card issued to active duty, reserve, and retired
personnel and the personnel's dependents.
(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, except as allowed under section 2 of this act. The use of a personal
credit card does not rely upon the credit of the state as prohibited by Article
VIII, section 5 of the state Constitution.
NEW SECTION. Sec.
2. (1) The state liquor
control board shall allow credit card purchases in a pilot project to study and
test the use of credit cards in state liquor stores. In order to conduct the
pilot project, the board shall, by rule:
(a) Establish the
criteria for selecting store test sites;
(b) Limit the pilot
project to eighteen months in duration;
(c) Include no more
than twenty stores;
(d) Include the use of
debit cards; and
(e) Allow only
nonlicensees to make credit card purchases.
(2) The board shall
provide a report of the results to the legislature by January 1, 1998.
Sec. 3. RCW 66.08.026 and 1983 c
160 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
All
administrative expenses of the board incurred on and after April 1, 1963 shall
be appropriated and paid from the liquor revolving fund. These administrative
expenses shall include, but not be limited to: The salaries and expenses of
the board and its employees, the cost of establishing, leasing, maintaining,
and operating state liquor stores and warehouses, legal services, pilot
projects, annual or other audits, and other general costs of conducting the
business of the board. The administrative expenses shall not, however, be
deemed to include costs of liquor and lottery tickets purchased, the cost of
transportation and delivery to the point of distribution, other costs
pertaining to the acquisition and receipt of liquor and lottery tickets,
packaging and repackaging of liquor, sales tax, and those amounts distributed
pursuant to RCW 66.08.180, 66.08.190, 66.08.200, 66.08.210 and 66.08.220.
