2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 66.24.481: Public place or club — License or permit required — Penalty.

No public place or club, or agent, servant or employee thereof, shall keep or allow to be kept, either by itself, its agent, servant or employee, or any other person, any liquor in any place maintained or conducted by such public place or club, nor shall it permit the drinking of any liquor in any such place, unless the sale of liquor in said place is authorized by virtue of a valid and subsisting license issued by the Washington state liquor control board, or the consumption of liquor in said place is authorized by a special banquet permit issued by said board. Every person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

     "Public place," for purposes of this section only, shall mean in addition to the definition set forth in *RCW 66.04.010(24), any place to which admission is charged or in which any pecuniary gain is realized by the owner or operator of such place in selling or vending food or soft drinks.

[1969 ex.s. c 250 § 2; 1953 c 141 § 1 (adding a new section to chapter 66.24 RCW).]

*Reviser's note: RCW 66.04.010 was amended by 1980 c 140 § 3, changing subsection (24) to subsection (23). RCW 66.04.010 was subsequently amended by 1997 c 321 § 37, changing subsection (23) to subsection (27). RCW 66.04.010 was subsequently amended by 2000 c 142 § 1, changing subsection (27) to subsection (28). RCW 66.04.010 was subsequently amended by 2004 c 160 § 1, changing subsection (28) to subsection (29), effective January 1, 2005. RCW 66.04.010 was subsequently amended by 2005 c 151 § 1, changing subsection (29) to subsection (30). RCW 66.04.010 was subsequently amended by 2006 c 225 § 1 and by 2006 c 101 § 1, changing subsection (30) to subsection (32).