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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 3001
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State of Washington 55th Legislature 1998 Regular Session
By House Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Representatives Honeyford, Delvin, Lisk and Cole)
Read first time 02/02/98. Referred to Committee on .
AN ACT Relating to the furnishing of wine by wineries to nonprofit charitable organizations; and amending RCW 66.28.040.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 66.28.040 and 1997 c 39 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
Except as permitted by the board under RCW 66.20.010, no brewer,
wholesaler, distiller, winery, importer, rectifier, or other manufacturer of
liquor shall, within the state, by himself or herself, a clerk, servant, or
agent, give to any person any liquor; but nothing in this section nor in RCW
66.28.010 shall prevent a brewer, wholesaler, winery, distiller, or importer
from furnishing samples of beer, wine, or spirituous liquor to authorized
licensees for the purpose of negotiating a sale, in accordance with regulations
adopted by the liquor control board, provided that the samples are subject to
taxes imposed by RCW 66.24.290 and 66.24.210, and in the case of spirituous
liquor, any product used for samples must be purchased at retail from the
board; nothing in this section shall prevent the furnishing of samples of
liquor to the board for the purpose of negotiating the sale of liquor to the
state liquor control board; nothing in this section shall prevent a brewery,
winery, distillery, or wholesaler from furnishing beer, wine, or spirituous
liquor for instructional purposes under RCW 66.28.150 and 66.28.155; nothing in
this section shall prevent a winery or wholesaler from furnishing wine without
charge, subject to the taxes imposed by RCW 66.24.210, to a not-for-profit
group organized and operated solely for the purpose of enology or the study of
viticulture which has been in existence for at least six months and ((any))
that uses wine so furnished ((shall be used)) solely for such
educational purposes((, provided that the wine furnished shall be subject to
the taxes imposed by RCW 66.24.210)) or a domestic winery from
furnishing wine without charge, subject to the taxes imposed by RCW 66.24.210,
to a nonprofit charitable corporation or association exempt from taxation under
section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Sec.
501(c)(3)) for use consistent with the purpose or purposes entitling it to such
exemption; nothing in this section shall prevent a brewer from serving beer
without charge, on the brewery premises; nothing in this section shall prevent
donations of wine for the purposes of RCW 66.12.180; and nothing in this
section shall prevent a domestic winery from serving wine without charge, on
the winery premises.
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