BILL REQ. #: H-0198.1
| State of Washington | 58th Legislature | 2003 Regular Session |
Read first time 01/24/2003. Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.
AN ACT Relating to local government land use and zoning powers over gambling activities; and amending RCW 9.46.295.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1 RCW 9.46.295 and 1974 ex.s. c 155 s 6 are each amended to
read as follows:
Any license to engage in any of the gambling activities authorized
by this chapter as now exists or as hereafter amended, and issued under
the authority thereof shall be legal authority to engage in the
gambling activities for which issued throughout the incorporated and
unincorporated area of any county, except that a city located therein
with respect to that city, or a county with respect to all areas within
that county except for such cities, may absolutely prohibit, but may
not change the scope of license, any or all of the gambling activities
for which the license was issued. Nothing in this chapter limits the
authority of any city, town, city-county, or county to exercise its
land use and zoning powers granted or recognized under the law with
respect to any land uses involving gambling activities authorized under
this chapter.