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SENATE BILL 5110
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State of Washington 57th Legislature 2001 Regular Session
By Senators Kastama, Winsley, Franklin, Hargrove, Regala and Oke
Read first time 01/11/2001. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
_1 AN ACT Relating to limiting the sale of ephedrine products;
_2 adding new sections to chapter 69.60 RCW; and prescribing
_3 penalties.
_4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
_5 NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 69.60
_6 RCW to read as follows:
_7 (1) Ephedrine products may only be sold in packages with counts
_8 of forty-eight or less.
_9 (2) No retailer may knowingly sell to a single customer, in any
10 twenty-four hour period, more than three packages of a product
11 containing ephedrine in counts of forty-eight or less per package
12 or containing a total weight of more than three grams of ephedrine
13 per package.
14 (3) No customer may purchase or acquire, in any twenty-four
15 hour period, more than three packages of a product containing
16 ephedrine in counts of forty-eight or less per package or
17 containing a total weight of more than three grams of ephedrine
18 per package.
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_1 (4) No person may possess more than fifteen grams of ephedrine.
_2 (5) Subsections (1) through (4) of this section do not apply to
_3 the sale, purchase, or possession of ephedrine dispensed by
_4 prescription as provided in chapter 69.41 RCW.
_5 (6) Subsections (3) and (4) of this section do not apply to the
_6 purchase or possession of ephedrine by shopkeepers required to
_7 register under RCW 18.64.044.
_8 NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 69.60
_9 RCW to read as follows:
10 A person convicted of violating section 1 of this act is guilty
11 of a gross misdemeanor punishable by a fine of no more than five
12 thousand dollars, imprisonment of no more than one year, or by
13 both fine and imprisonment.
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