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SECOND
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2782
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AS
AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed
Legislature - 1998 Regular Session
State of Washington 55th
Legislature 1998 Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/07/98.
Referred to Committee on .
Authorizing
special event endorsements to full service private club licenses.
AN
ACT Relating to special event endorsements to full service private club
licenses; amending RCW 66.24.450; creating a new section; and providing an
effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
66.24.450 and 1997 c 321 s 30 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
No club shall be entitled to a full service private club license:
(a)
Unless such private club has been in continuous operation for at least one year
immediately prior to the date of its application for such license;
(b)
Unless the private 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;
(c)
Unless the board shall have determined pursuant to any regulations made by it
with respect to private clubs, that such private club is a bona fide private
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 private club, where the sale of
liquor is incidental to the main purposes of the private club, as defined in
RCW 66.04.010(7).
(2)
The annual fee for a full service private club license, whether inside or
outside of an incorporated city or town, is seven hundred twenty dollars per
year.
(3)
The board may issue an endorsement to the full service private club license
that allows up to forty nonclub, member-sponsored events using club liquor.
Visitors and guests may attend these events only by invitation of the
sponsoring member or members. These events may not be open to the general
public. The fee for the endorsement shall be an annual fee of nine hundred
dollars. Upon the board's request, the holder of the endorsement must provide
the board or the board's designee with the following information at least
seventy-two hours prior to the event: The date, time, and location of the
event; the name of the sponsor of the event; and a brief description of the
purpose of the event.
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 2. The
board shall report to the senate and house of representatives by January 1,
2001, on whether it has found in the ordinary course of its business since the
effective date of this act that compliance by private clubs with restrictions
on service of nonmembers has improved as a result of the changes in RCW
66.24.450 by section 1 of this act, and whether any amendments are needed to
enhance compliance.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. This
act takes effect July 1, 1998.
