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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2685

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State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By House Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Representatives Heavey, Lisk, Springer, Basich and Kessler)

Read first time 02/04/94.

Concerning the placement of cigarette vending machines.

    AN ACT Relating to cigarette vending machines; and amending RCW 70.155.030.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 70.155.030 and 1993 c 507 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:

    No person shall sell or permit to be sold any tobacco product through any device that mechanically dispenses tobacco products unless the device is located fully within premises from which minors are prohibited or in industrial worksites where minors are not employed and not less than ten feet from all entrance or exit ways to and from each premise((s)).  The board shall adopt rules that allow an exception to the requirement that a device be located not less than ten feet from all entrance or exit ways to and from a premise if it is architecturally impractical for the device to be located not less than ten feet from all entrance and exit ways.

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