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                         SENATE BILL 5648

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Senator Haugen

Read first time 02/01/1999.  Referred to Committee on Commerce, Trade, Housing & Financial Institutions.

Providing consistency in definitions regarding businesses furnishing lodging.

    AN ACT Relating to providing consistency in definitions regarding businesses furnishing lodging; and amending RCW 19.48.010.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 19.48.010 and 1929 c 216 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    Any building held out to the public to be an inn, hotel or public lodging house or place where sleeping accommodations, whether with or without meals, or the facilities for preparing the same, are furnished for hire to transient guests, in which ((fifteen)) three or more rooms are used for the accommodation of such guests, shall for the purposes of this chapter and chapter 60.64 RCW, or any amendment thereof, only, be defined to be a hotel, and whenever the word hotel shall occur in this chapter and chapter 60.64 RCW, or any amendment thereof, it shall be construed to mean a hotel as herein described.

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