State of Washington | 62nd Legislature | 2012 Regular Session |
READ FIRST TIME 02/21/11.
AN ACT Relating to social card games in an area annexed by a city or town that allowed a house-banked social card game business to continue operating under RCW 9.46.295; and amending RCW 9.46.295.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1 RCW 9.46.295 and 2011 c 134 s 1 are each amended to read
as follows:
(1) 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)) is 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.
(2)(a) A city or town with a prohibition on house-banked social
card game licenses that annexes an area that is within a city, town, or
county that permits house-banked social card games may allow a house-banked social card game business that was licensed by the commission as
of July 26, 2009, to continue operating if the city or town is
authorized to impose a tax under RCW 82.14.415 and can demonstrate that
the continuation of the house-banked social card game business will
reduce the credit against the state sales and use tax as provided in
RCW 82.14.415(7).
(b) A city or town that allowed a house-banked social card game
business in an annexed area to continue operating under (a) of this
subsection before July 15, 2010, ((shall)) must allow all social card
game businesses in the annexed area that were operating and licensed by
the commission as of January 1, 2011, to continue operating.
(c) A city or town that allows a social card game business in an
annexed area to continue operating is not required to allow additional
social card game businesses.
(d) A city or town with a prohibition on house-banked social card
game businesses that annexes an area that is within a city, town, or
county, where the annexed city, town, or county: (i) Permits house-banked social card games; and (ii) is not eligible for the tax under
RCW 82.14.415, the annexing city or town may allow a house-banked
social card game business that was licensed by the commission prior to
January 1, 2013, to continue operating if the annexing city or town
annexes all of the established urban growth area within a county for
the city or town.