CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5304

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate April 22, 1999   YEAS 43   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House April 12, 1999   YEAS 94   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5304 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives	Secretary
Speaker of the       House of Representatives

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5304

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                      AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Senators Costa, Heavey, Fairley, Goings, McCaslin and West)

Read first time 02/15/1999.

Making violations of the liquor code misdemeanor offenses.  

    AN ACT Relating to penalties imposed for violations of the state liquor code; amending RCW 66.28.230, and 66.44.100; adding a new section to chapter 66.28 RCW; creating a new section; repealing RCW 66.44.320; and prescribing penalties.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 66.28.230 and 1989 c 271 s 232 are each amended to read as follows:

    (((1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the violation of any provisions of RCW 66.28.200 through 66.28.220 is punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.

    (2))) Except as provided in RCW 66.44.270, a person who intentionally furnishes a keg or other container containing four or more gallons of malt liquor to a ((minor is liable, on conviction, for a first offense for a penalty of not more than five hundred dollars, or for imprisonment for not more than two months, or both; for a second offense for a penalty of not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than six months, or both; and for a third or subsequent offense for a penalty of not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for more than one year, or both)) person under the age of twenty-one years is guilty of a gross misdemeanor punishable under RCW 9.92.020.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 66.28 RCW to read as follows:

    The violation of any provisions of RCW 66.28.200 through 66.28.230 is a gross misdemeanor punishable under RCW 9.92.020.

    Sec. 3.  RCW 66.44.100 and 1981 1st ex.s. c 5 s 21 are each amended to read as follows:

    Except as permitted by this title, no person shall open the package containing liquor or consume liquor in a public place.  Every person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a ((misdemeanor, and on conviction therefor shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars)) class 3 civil infraction under chapter 7.80 RCW.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.  RCW 66.44.320 (Sales of liquor to minors a violation) and 1973 1st ex.s. c 209 s 19, 1933 c 2 s 1, & 1929 c 200 s 1 are each repealed.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 5.  This act applies to crimes committed on or after the effective date of this act.

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