PERMANENT RULES
Date of Adoption: April 17, 2002.
Purpose: The purpose of the rule making is to revise subsection (3) of WAC 314-60-040 to update the dates and times of the Liquor Control Board's regular board meetings. The board now intends to hold its regular board meetings on the first and third Wednesdays of the month, as opposed to each Wednesday. The rule continues to explain that the board publishes its meeting schedule with the Office of the Code Reviser and on its web site.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending 1 [WAC 314-60-040].
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 66.08.030, 43.30.070.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 02-04-111 on February 6, 2002.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0;
Pilot Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0;
or Other Alternative Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 1,
Repealed 0.
Effective Date of Rule:
Thirty-one days after filing.
April 18, 2002
Merritt D. Long
Chair
(1) An organizational chart is available from the board's public records office which illustrates the general structure and composition of the board's operations.
(2) Board procedures relating to hearings involving alleged violations of the liquor act and/or revised rules and regulations of the board are covered in chapter 314-04 WAC and in chapter 314-08 WAC Practice and procedure.
(a) General information pertaining to formal hearings is available from the board's public records office.
(b) Forms of notice of board action proposing to suspend a liquor license are available from the board's public records office.
(3) Pursuant to the requirements of the Open Public Meetings
Act (chapter 42.30 RCW) all determinations and business of the
board, except matters which are exempt from the act under RCW 42.30.140, or properly conducted in executive session, pursuant
to RCW 42.30.110, will be made and conducted in meetings open to
the public. The board holds ((R))regular meetings ((of the board
will be on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. Meetings of the board may be
held on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday of each week,
except on holidays, beginning at 8:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter
as a quorum is assembled)) as published with the office of the
code reviser per RCW 43.30.075 and as published on the board's
Internet site at www.liq.wa.gov. Generally, the board's regular
meetings are held on Wednesdays. It is the board's intent to
hold its regular board meetings on the first and third Wednesdays
of the month. Unless notice is otherwise given, meetings of the
board will be held at its offices in the board room at 3000
Pacific Avenue Southeast, Olympia, Washington. For scheduling
purposes, it is the board's intent to ((conduct staff meetings
and work sessions at its Tuesday and Thursday meetings, and to))
schedule petitions, take public testimony, take rule making
actions, and ((adoption of)) adopt resolutions at its regular
Wednesday board meetings((, however, so long as proper legal
notice is given, the board may accept petitions, take public
testimony and adopt resolutions on any day when a regular meeting
may be scheduled under this rule. In addition to legal notice
published pursuant to chapter 42.30 RCW, meeting notices will be
published on the Internet at www.liq.wa.gov and information about
meeting times and agendas will be available in the board office
during regular office hours)).
[Statutory Authority: RCW 66.08.030 and 66.24.12 [66.08.012]. 99-16-119, § 314-60-040, filed 8/4/99, effective 9/4/99. Statutory Authority: RCW 66.08.030. 98-14-003, § 314-60-040, filed 6/18/98, effective 7/19/98. Statutory Authority: RCW 66.08.030, 66.08.050 and 42.30.070. 92-14-027, § 314-60-040, filed 6/22/92, effective 7/23/92. Statutory Authority: RCW 66.08.030(1). 90-02-109, § 314-60-040, filed 1/3/90, effective 2/3/90. Statutory Authority: RCW 66.08.030 and 42.30.070. 82-10-021 (Order 104, Resolution No. 113), § 314-60-040, filed 4/28/82. Statutory Authority: RCW 66.08.030. 82-04-030 (Order 97, Resolution No. 106), § 314-60-040, filed 1/27/82; Order 56, § 314-60-040, filed 5/31/77, effective 7/1/77; Order 22, § 314-60-040, filed 4/17/73, effective 5/18/73.]
Reviser's note: The typographical error in the above section occurred in the copy filed by the agency and appears in the Register pursuant to the requirements of RCW 34.08.040.