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                         SENATE BILL 5269

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

 

By Senators Rasmussen, Pelz, Heavey, Winsley, Franklin, Oke and Deccio

 

Read first time 01/17/95.  Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce & Trade.

 

Raising the maximum cost for raffle tickets to ten dollars.



    AN ACT Relating to raffle tickets; and amending RCW 9.46.0277.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 9.46.0277 and 1987 c 4 s 20 are each amended to read as follows:

    "Raffle," as used in this chapter, means a game in which tickets bearing an individual number are sold for not more than ((five)) ten dollars each and in which a prize or prizes are awarded on the basis of a drawing from the tickets by the person or persons conducting the game, when the game is conducted by a bona fide charitable or nonprofit organization, no person other than a bona fide member of the organization takes any part in the management or operation of the game, and no part of the proceeds thereof inure to the benefit of any person other than the organization conducting the game.

 


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