H-3278.2
HOUSE BILL 2199
State of Washington | 66th Legislature | 2020 Regular Session |
ByRepresentatives Klippert, Shewmake, and Dent
Prefiled 12/04/19.Read first time 01/13/20.Referred to Committee on Commerce & Gaming.
AN ACT Relating to marijuana use in guest rooms of hotels, motels, and inns in violation of the owner or operator's rules; amending RCW
69.50.445; and prescribing penalties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW
69.50.445 and 2015 2nd sp.s. c 4 s 401 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)(a) It is unlawful to open a package containing marijuana, useable marijuana, marijuana-infused products, or marijuana concentrates, or consume marijuana, useable marijuana, marijuana-infused products, or marijuana concentrates, in view of the general public or in a public place.
(b) It is unlawful to smoke marijuana, useable marijuana, marijuana-infused products, or marijuana concentrates, in a guest room of a hotel, motel, or inn, when the rental agreement between the owner or operator and the guest expressly prohibits smoking marijuana in the guest room. A hotel, motel, or inn may prohibit the smoking of marijuana in any or all guest rooms.
(c) It is unlawful to consume, by means of vaporization or aerosolization, marijuana, useable marijuana, marijuana-infused products, or marijuana concentrates, in a guest room of a hotel, motel, or inn, when the rental agreement between the owner or operator and the guest expressly prohibits the consumption of marijuana by means of vaporization or aerosolization in the guest room. A hotel, motel, or inn may prohibit the consumption of marijuana and marijuana products by means of vaporization or aerosolization in any or all guest rooms.
(2) For the purposes of this section((,)):
(a) "Hotel, motel, or inn" means any facility that meets the definition of "transient accommodation" in RCW 70.62.210(1); (b) "
Public place" has the same meaning as defined in RCW
66.04.010, but the exclusions in RCW
66.04.011 do not apply
; and (c) "Smoke" means to combust marijuana or a marijuana product with or without the use of a pipe, joint, blunt, paper, or smoking device.
(3) A person who violates this section is guilty of a class 3 civil infraction under chapter
7.80 RCW.
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