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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6589

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Commerce, Trade, Housing & Financial Institutions (originally sponsored by Senators Prentice, Hale, Deccio, Rasmussen, Loveland, B. Sheldon, West, McAuliffe and Kohl‑Welles)

Read first time 02/04/2000.

Allowing domestic wineries to exercise licensing privileges at up to two additional locations.

    AN ACT Relating to domestic wineries; and amending RCW 66.24.170.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 66.24.170 and 1997 c 321 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) There shall be a license for domestic wineries; fee to be computed only on the liters manufactured:  Less than two hundred fifty thousand liters per year, one hundred dollars per year; and two hundred fifty thousand liters or more per year, four hundred dollars per year.

    (2) The license allows for the manufacture of wine in Washington state from grapes or other agricultural products.

    (3) Any domestic winery licensed under this section may also act as a distributor and/or retailer of wine of its own production.  Any winery operating as a distributor and/or retailer under this subsection shall comply with the applicable laws and rules relating to distributors and/or retailers.

    (4) A domestic winery licensed under this section, at locations separate from any of its production or manufacturing sites, may serve samples of its own products, with or without charge, and sell wine of its own production at retail for off-premise consumption, provided that:  (a) Each additional location has been approved by the board under RCW 66.24.010; (b) the total number of additional locations does not exceed two; and (c) a winery may not act as a distributor at any such additional location.  Each additional location is deemed to be part of the winery license for the purpose of this title.  Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prevent a domestic winery from holding multiple domestic winery licenses.

(5) Wine produced in Washington state by a domestic winery licensee may be shipped out-of-state for the purpose of making it into sparkling wine and then returned to such licensee for resale.  Such wine shall be deemed wine manufactured in the state of Washington for the purposes of RCW 66.24.206, and shall not require a special license.

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