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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 383

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Representative Patrick

Read first time 1/30/85 and referred to Committee on Social & Health Services.

AN ACT Relating to public health and safety; adding a new section to chapter 70.96A RCW; and repealing RCW 70.96A.190.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 70.96A RCW to read as follows:

          (1) Any individual who is convicted of violating a local law, ordinance, resolution, or rule adopted by a county, municipality, or other political subdivision, which makes it a criminal offense to be in an intoxicated condition in public, shall, upon a showing that the individual is an alcoholic, be ordered by the court to enroll in a department of social and health services' approved alcohol rehabilitation program for no less than sixty days in lieu of the imposition of any criminal penalty.

          (2) Any individual who makes a showing and completes an alcohol rehabilitation program pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall not have a criminal or police record regarding that intoxication offense.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  Section 19, chapter 122, Laws of 1972 ex. sess. and RCW 70.96A.190 are each repealed.