WSR 14-03-078
PERMANENT RULES
LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD
[Filed January 15, 2014, 11:32 a.m., effective February 15, 2014]
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: SSB 5774 passed in the 2013 legislative session. Rules are needed to clarify the new law for community and technical colleges that wish to allow their students to taste alcoholic beverages as part of the culinary, beer technology, wine technology, or spirituous technology related degree program.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 66.08.030.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 13-23-105 on November 20, 2013.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: January 15, 2014.
Sharon Foster
Chairman
NEW SECTION
WAC 314-38-060 Special permit for technical or community colleges as authorized by RCW 66.20.010(12) shall be called a class 15 permit.
(1) The class 15 permit allows tasting of alcohol by persons between eighteen and twenty years old. The requirements for a class 15 permit are as follows:
(a) The permit applicant is a technical or community college;
(b) The permit allows tasting, not consuming of alcohol as part of the class curriculum with approval of the educational provider;
(c) The student must be enrolled in a required or elective class at the college premises as part of a culinary, beer technology, wine technology, or spirituous technology-related degree program;
(d) The alcohol served to any person in the program under twenty-one years of age is tasted but not consumed for the purpose of educational training as part of the class curriculum with the approval of the educational provider;
(e) Faculty or staff of the educational provider must be at least twenty-one years of age, supervise the service and tasting, and hold a class 12 or class 13 alcohol server permit; and
(f) Students may not purchase the alcoholic beverages.
(2) There is no annual fee for this permit.