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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6582

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Senator Lee

Read first time 1/17/90 and referred to Committee on  Economic Development & Labor.

AN ACT Relating to discrimination by clubs; and amending RCW 66.24.450.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 217, Laws of 1937 as last amended by section 18, chapter 5, Laws of 1981 1st ex. sess. and RCW 66.24.450 are each amended to read as follows:

          No club shall be entitled to a class H license:

          (1) Unless such club has been in continuous operation for at least one year immediately prior to the date of its application for such license;

          (2) Unless the club premises be constructed and equipped, conducted, managed, and operated to the satisfaction of the board and in accordance with this title and the regulations made thereunder;

          (3) Unless the board shall have determined pursuant to any regulations made by it with respect to clubs, that such club is a bona fide club; it being the intent of this section that license shall not be granted to a club which is, or has been, primarily formed or activated to obtain a license to sell liquor, but solely to a bona fide club, where the sale of liquor is incidental to the main purposes of the club, as defined in RCW 66.04.010(5);

(4) If any person asserts to the board that the club has discriminated because of a person's race, creed, color, national origin, or sex, and the board finds that the club has so discriminated.  The club shall not be entitled to a class H license until the board finds that the club has ceased its discriminatory practices.