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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5022
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State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Labor, Commerce & Trade (originally sponsored by Senators Fairley and Winsley)
Read first time 01/30/95.
AN ACT Relating to identification cards for liquor purchases; and amending RCW 66.16.040.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 66.16.040 and 1981 1st ex.s. c 5 s 8 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 ((military
identification)), 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.
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