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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2782

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By House Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Representatives McMorris and Wood)

Read first time 02/02/98.  Referred to Committee on .

Authorizing special event endorsements to full service private club licenses.

    AN ACT Relating to special event endorsements to full service private club licenses; amending RCW 66.24.450; and providing an effective date.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 66.24.450 and 1997 c 321 s 30 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) No club shall be entitled to a full service private club license:

    (a) Unless such private club has been in continuous operation for at least one year immediately prior to the date of its application for such license;

    (b) Unless the private club premises be constructed and equipped, conducted, managed, and operated to the satisfaction of the board and in accordance with this title and the regulations made thereunder;

    (c) Unless the board shall have determined pursuant to any regulations made by it with respect to private clubs, that such private club is a bona fide private club; it being the intent of this section that license shall not be granted to a club which is, or has been, primarily formed or activated to obtain a license to sell liquor, but solely to a bona fide private club, where the sale of liquor is incidental to the main purposes of the private club, as defined in RCW 66.04.010(7).

    (2) The annual fee for a full service private club license, whether inside or outside of an incorporated city or town, is seven hundred twenty dollars per year.

(3) The board may issue an endorsement to the full service private club license that allows up to fifty nonclub, member-sponsored events using club liquor.  Visitors and guests may attend these events only by invitation of the sponsoring member or members.  These events may not be open to the general public.  The fee for the endorsement shall be an annual fee of four hundred eighty dollars.  Upon the board's request, the holder of the endorsement must provide the board or the board's designee with the following information at least seventy-two hours prior to the event:  The date, time, and location of the event; the name of the sponsor of the event; and a brief description of the purpose of the event.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act takes effect July 1, 1998.

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