BILL REQ. #: H-2409.1

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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1159
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State of Washington

59th Legislature

2005 Regular Session

By House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Kirby and Priest)

READ FIRST TIME 03/03/05.

AN ACT Relating to limiting liability for persons who work with liquefied petroleum gas; and adding a new section to chapter 4.24 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1 A new section is added to chapter 4.24 RCW to read as follows:
A person who sells at retail, supplies, handles, or transports liquefied petroleum gas is not liable for civil damages for injury, wrongful death, or loss of property caused by the use of liquefied petroleum gas equipment or a liquefied petroleum gas appliance when: (1) The equipment or appliance was being used in a manner or for a purpose other than its intended use or in a manner or for a purpose that was not foreseeable and could not have been expected; and (2) the use was without the person's actual or constructive knowledge.

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