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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 289
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C 250 L 87
State of Washington 50th Legislature 1987 Regular Session
By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Nutley, L. Smith, Haugen, Brough and Cooper)
Read first time 2/9/87 and passed to Committee on Rules.
AN ACT Relating to the regulation of dances and other recreational or entertainment activities; amending RCW 26.28.080; adding a new section to chapter 67.12 RCW; and repealing RCW 67.12.010, 67.12.020, 67.12.030, 67.12.040, 67.12.050, 67.12.060, 67.12.070, 67.12.075, 67.12.080, 67.12.090, and 67.12.100.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 67.12 RCW to read as follows:
Counties are authorized to adopt ordinances to license and regulate public dances and other public recreational or entertainment activities in the unincorporated areas of the county whether or not held inside or outside of a building and whether or not admission charges are imposed.
License fees may be adequate to finance the costs of issuing the license and enforcing the regulations, including related law enforcement activities.
Sec. 2. Sections 1, 3, and 4, chapter 126, Laws of 1895 as last amended by section 37, chapter 292, Laws of 1971 ex. sess. and RCW 26.28.080 are each amended to read as follows:
Every person who:
(1) Shall admit to or allow to remain in any concert saloon, or in any place owned, kept, or managed by him or her where intoxicating liquors are sold, given away or disposed of‑-except a restaurant or dining room, any person under the age of eighteen years; or,
(2) Shall
admit to, or allow to remain in any ((dance-house,)) public pool or
billiard hall, or in any place of entertainment injurious to health or morals,
owned, kept or managed by him or her, any person under the age of
eighteen years; or,
(3) Shall suffer or permit any such person to play any game of skill or chance, in any such place, or in any place adjacent thereto, or to be or remain therein, or admit or allow to remain in any reputed house of prostitution or assignation, or in any place where opium or any preparation thereof, is smoked, or where any narcotic drug is used, any persons under the age of eighteen years; or,
(4) Shall sell or give, or permit to be sold or given to any person under the age of twenty-one years any intoxicating liquor, or to any person under the age of eighteen years any cigar, cigarette, cigarette paper or wrapper, or tobacco in any form; or
(5) Shall sell, or give, or permit to be sold or given to any person under the age of eighteen years, any revolver or pistol;
Shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
It shall be no defense to a prosecution for a violation of this section that the person acted, or was believed by the defendant to act, as agent or representative of another.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:
(1) Section 1, chapter 111, Laws of 1923 and RCW 67.12.010;
(2) Section 2, chapter 111, Laws of 1923 and RCW 67.12.020;
(3) Section 3, chapter 111, Laws of 1923, section 8, chapter 91, Laws of 1985 and RCW 67.12.030;
(4) Section 4, chapter 111, Laws of 1923 and RCW 67.12.040;
(5) Section 5, chapter 111, Laws of 1923, section 9, chapter 91, Laws of 1985 and RCW 67.12.050;
(6) Section 6, chapter 111, Laws of 1923 and RCW 67.12.060;
(7) Section 7, chapter 111, Laws of 1923 and RCW 67.12.070;
(8) Section 1, chapter 103, Laws of 1937 and RCW 67.12.075;
(9) Section 2, chapter 103, Laws of 1937 and RCW 67.12.080;
(10) Section 3, chapter 103, Laws of 1937 and RCW 67.12.090; and
(11) Section 4, chapter 103, Laws of 1937 and RCW 67.12.100.