Wash. Rev. Code § 66.44.340

Current through 2024

Section 66.44.340 - Employees eighteen years and over allowed to sell and handle beer and wine for certain licensed employers

(1) Employers holding grocery store or beer and/or wine specialty shop licenses exclusively are permitted to allow their employees, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one years, to sell, stock, and handle liquor in, on or about any establishment holding a license to sell such liquor, if:

(a) There is an adult twenty-one years of age or older on duty supervising the sale of liquor at the licensed premises; and

(b) In the case of spirits, there are at least two adults twenty-one years of age or older on duty supervising the sale of spirits at the licensed premises.

(2) *Employees under twenty-one years of age may make deliveries of beer and/or wine purchased from licensees holding grocery store or beer and/or wine specialty shop licenses exclusively, when delivery is made to cars of customers adjacent to such licensed premises but only, however, when the underage employee is accompanied by the purchaser.

RCW 66.44.340

Amended by 2012 c 2§ 211 (Initiative Measure No. 1183, approved 11/8/2011).

1999 c 281 § 11; 1986 c 5 § 1; 1981 1st ex.s. c 5 § 48; 1969 ex.s. c 38 § 1.

*Reviser's note: Initiative Measure No. 1183 removed the word "minor" and inserted the phrase "Employees under twenty-one years of age" without enclosing "minor" in double parentheses with strike-through and without underlining "Employees under twenty-one years of age."

Finding-Application-Rules-Effective date-Contingent effective date- 2012 c 2 (Initiative Measure No. 1183): See notes following RCW 66.24.620.

Effective date-1981 1st ex.s. c 5: See RCW 66.98.100.