CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5582

                        55th Legislature

                      1998 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate March 12, 1998   YEAS 38   NAYS 10 President of the Senate Passed by the House March 11, 1998   YEAS 84   NAYS 14

CERTIFICATE I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5582 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Secretary

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5582

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              AS RECOMMENDED BY CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

             Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Roach, Goings, Schow, Stevens, Oke and Kline)

Read first time 03/05/97.

Prohibiting the purchase of liquor by intoxicated persons.  

    AN ACT Relating to liquor purchases by persons apparently under the influence of liquor; amending RCW 66.44.200; and prescribing penalties.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 66.44.200 and 1933 ex.s. c 62 s 36 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) No person shall sell any liquor to any person apparently under the influence of liquor.

(2)(a) No person who is apparently under the influence of liquor may purchase or consume liquor on any premises licensed by the board.

(b) A violation of this subsection is an infraction punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.

(c) A defendant's intoxication may not be used as a defense in an action under this subsection.

(d) Until July 1, 2000, every establishment licensed under RCW 66.24.330 or 66.24.420 shall conspicuously post in the establishment notice of the prohibition against the purchase or consumption of liquor under this subsection.

(3) An administrative action for violation of subsection (1) of this section and an infraction issued for violation of subsection (2) of this section arising out of the same incident are separate actions and the outcome of one shall not determine the outcome of the other.

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