CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

             ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5712

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate March 17, 1999   YEAS 41   NAYS 5 President of the Senate Passed by the House April 9, 1999   YEAS 91   NAYS 1

CERTIFICATE I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5712 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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               ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5712

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Commerce, Trade, Housing & Financial Institutions (originally sponsored by Senators Prentice, Hale, Bauer, West and Winsley)

Read first time 03/03/99.

Regulating motel liquor licenses.   

    AN ACT Relating to motel liquor licenses; and amending RCW 66.24.540.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 66.24.540 and 1997 c 321 s 34 are each amended to read as follows:

    There shall be a retailer's license to be designated as a motel license.  The motel license may be issued to a motel ((that)) regardless of whether it holds ((no)) any other class of license under this title.  No license may be issued to a motel offering rooms to its guests on an hourly basis.  The license authorizes the licensee to:

(1) Sell, at retail, in locked honor bars, spirits in individual bottles not to exceed fifty milliliters, beer in individual cans or bottles not to exceed twelve ounces, and wine in individual bottles not to exceed one hundred eighty-seven milliliters, to registered guests of the motel for consumption in guest rooms.

(a) Each honor bar must also contain snack foods.  No more than one-half of the guest rooms may have honor bars.  ((The board shall charge a reasonable fee for this license.))

(b) All spirits to be sold under the license must be purchased from the board.

(c) The licensee shall require proof of age from the guest renting a guest room and requesting the use of an honor bar.  The guest shall also execute an affidavit verifying that no one under twenty-one years of age shall have access to the spirits, beer, and wine in the honor bar.

(2) Provide without additional charge, to overnight guests of the motel, beer and wine by the individual serving for on-premises consumption at a specified regular date, time, and place as may be fixed by the board.  Self-service by attendees is prohibited.  All beer and wine service must be done by an alcohol server as defined in RCW 66.20.300 and comply with RCW 66.20.310.

The annual fee for a motel license is five hundred dollars.

    "Motel" as used in this section means a ((facility or place offering three or more self-contained units designated by number, letter, or some other method of identification to travelers and transient guests)) transient accommodation licensed under chapter 70.62 RCW.

    As used in this section, "spirits," "beer," and "wine" have the meanings defined in RCW 66.04.010.

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