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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 589

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Representatives Vekich, Zellinsky, Bristow, Nutley, Schmidt, Patrick, Doty, Lewis, Fuhrman, Wang, Grimm and P. King

Read first time 2/4/87 and referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.

AN ACT Relating to beer retailers; and amending RCW 66.24.360.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 23Q added to chapter 62, Laws of 1933 ex. sess. by section 1, chapter 217, Laws of 1937 as last amended by section 41, chapter 5, Laws of 1981 1st ex. sess. and RCW 66.24.360 are each amended to read as follows:

          There shall be a beer retailer's license to be designated as class E license to sell pasteurized beer at retail in bottles and original packages, not to be consumed upon the premises where sold, at any store other than the state liquor stores; fee seventy-five dollars per annum for each store:  PROVIDED, That a holder of a class A or a class B license shall be entitled to the privileges permitted in this section by paying an annual fee of twenty-five dollars for each store.  Licensees under this section whose business is primarily the sale of beer and/or wine at retail may provide, free or for a charge, single-serving samples of two ounces or less to customers for the purpose of sales promotion.

For the purpose of this section, "pasteurized beer" includes, in addition to the usual and customary meaning, bottle conditioned beer which has been fermented partially or completely in the container in which it is sold to the retail customer and which may contain residual active yeast.  The bottles and original packages in which such bottle conditioned beer may be sold under this section shall not exceed one hundred seventy ounces in capacity.