BILL REQ. #:  S-1717.1 

READ FIRST TIME 02/23/05.   

     AN ACT Relating to regulating liquified petroleum gas; adding a new chapter to Title 19 RCW; and prescribing penalties.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
     (1) "Container" means all vessels, such as tanks, portable cylinders, or drums, with a water capacity equal to or greater than two hundred thirty-nine pounds, used for transporting or storing liquefied petroleum gas.
     (2) "Cylinder" means a portable container that is constructed to United States department of transportation specifications that has less than two hundred thirty-nine pounds of water capacity and that is capable of storing liquified petroleum gas.
     (3) "Liquefied petroleum gas" means any hydrocarbon or mixture of hydrocarbons composed predominantly of propane, propyleme, butanes, normal butane, isobutane, or butylenes.
     (4) "Person" means a natural person, corporation, partnership, firm, receiver, trustee, or any organized group of persons.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   (1) A person, other than the owner of a liquified petroleum gas container or a person authorized in writing by the owner, may not:
     (a) Fill or refill a liquified petroleum gas container with liquified petroleum gas or any other gas or compound; or
     (b) Deface, erase, obliterate, cover up, or otherwise remove or conceal any name, mark, initial, or device on a liquified petroleum gas container.
     (2) This section does not apply to cylinders.
     (3) A violation of this chapter is a class 1 civil infraction under chapter 7.80 RCW.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3   Sections 1 and 2 of this act constitute a new chapter in Title 19 RCW.