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                          HOUSE BILL 2782

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Representatives McMorris and Wood

Read first time 01/20/98.  Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.

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 a special event endorsement to the full service private club license to allow the licensee to purchase up to fifty special event permits for nonclub events using club liquor.  Cost of the endorsement is the difference between the cost of a private club license and what the cost would be for a full service restaurant license for the licensee.  The holder of the endorsement shall notify the board of a nonclub event for which a special event permit is issued at least seventy-two hours before the event and shall, if requested by the board, notify the board or the board's designee of the date, time, place, and location of the event.

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

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