Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 66 Alcoholic Beverage Control - Chapter 66.44 Enforcement -- Penalties

66.44.010 Local officers to enforce law -- Authority of board -- Liquor enforcement officers
(1) All county and municipal peace officers are hereby charged with the duty of investigating and prosecuting all violations of this title, and the penal ...

66.44.040 Sufficiency of description of offenses in complaints, informations, process, etc
In describing the offense respecting the sale, or keeping for sale or other disposal, of liquor, or the having, keeping, giving, purchasing or consumption of ...

66.44.050 Description of offense in words of statutes -- Proof required
The description of any offense under this title, in the words of this title, or in any words of like effect, shall be sufficient in ...

66.44.060 Proof of unlawful sale establishes prima facie intent
In any proceeding under this title, proof of one unlawful sale of liquor shall suffice to establish prima facie the intent or purpose of unlawfully ...

66.44.070 Certified analysis is prima facie evidence of alcoholic content
A certificate, signed by any person appointed or designated by the board in writing as an analyst, as to the percentage of alcohol contained in ...

66.44.080 Service of process on corporation
In all prosecutions, actions, or proceedings under the provisions of this title against a corporation, every summons, warrant, order, writ or other proceeding may be ...

66.44.090 Acting without license
Any person doing any act required to be licensed under this title without having in force a license issued to him shall be guilty of ...

66.44.100 Opening or consuming liquor in public place -- Penalty
Except as permitted by this title, no person shall open the package containing liquor or consume liquor in a public place. Every person who violates ...

66.44.120 Unlawful use of seal
(1) No person other than an employee of the board shall keep or have in his or her possession any official seal prescribed under this ...

66.44.130 Sales of liquor by drink or bottle
Except as otherwise provided in this title, every person who sells by the drink or bottle, any liquor shall be guilty of a violation of ...

66.44.140 Unlawful sale, transportation of spirituous liquor without stamp or seal -- Unlawful operation, possession of still or mash
Every person who shall sell or offer for sale, or transport in any manner, any spirituous liquor, without government stamp or seal attached thereto, or ...

66.44.150 Buying liquor illegally
If any person in this state buys alcoholic beverages from any person other than the board, a state liquor store, or some person authorized by ...

66.44.160 Illegal possession, transportation of alcoholic beverages
Except as otherwise provided in this title, any person who has or keeps or transports alcoholic beverages other than those purchased from the board, a ...

66.44.170 Illegal possession of liquor with intent to sell -- Prima facie evidence, what is
Any person who keeps or possesses liquor upon his person or in any place, or on premises conducted or maintained by him as principal or ...

66.44.175 Violations of law
Every person who violates any provision of this title or the regulations shall be guilty of a violation of this title, whether otherwise declared or ...

66.44.180 General penalties -- Jurisdiction for violations
(1) Every person guilty of a violation of this title for which no penalty has been specifically provided: (a) For a first offense, is guilty ...

66.44.193 Sales on university or college campus
If an institution of higher education chooses to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages on campus, the legislature encourages the institution to feature products produced ...

66.44.200 Sales to persons apparently under the influence of liquor -- Purchases or consumption by persons apparently under the influence of liquor on licensed premises -- Penalty -- Notice -- Separation of actions
(1) No person shall sell any liquor to any person apparently under the influence of liquor. (2)(a) No person who is apparently under the influence ...

66.44.210 Obtaining liquor for ineligible person
Except in the case of liquor administered by a physician or dentist or sold upon a prescription in accordance with the provisions of this title, ...

66.44.240 Drinking in public conveyance -- Penalty against carrier -- Exception
Every person engaged wholly or in part in the business of carrying passengers for hire, and every agent, servant, or employee of such person, who ...

66.44.250 Drinking in public conveyance -- Penalty against individual -- Restricted application
Every person who drinks any intoxicating liquor in any public conveyance, except in a compartment or place where sold or served under the authority of ...

66.44.265 Candidates giving or purchasing liquor on election day prohibited
It shall be unlawful for a candidate for office or for nomination thereto whose name appears upon the ballot at any election to give to ...

66.44.270 Furnishing liquor to minors -- Possession, use -- Penalties -- Exhibition of effects -- Exceptions
(1) It is unlawful for any person to sell, give, or otherwise supply liquor to any person under the age of twenty-one years or permit ...

66.44.280 Minor applying for permit
Every person under the age of twenty-one years who makes application for a permit shall be guilty of an offense against this title.[1955 c 70 ...

66.44.290 Minor purchasing or attempting to purchase liquor -- Penalty
(1) Every person under the age of twenty-one years who purchases or attempts to purchase liquor shall be guilty of a violation of this title. ...

66.44.292 Sales to minors by licensee or employee -- Board notification to prosecuting attorney to formulate charges against minors
The Washington state liquor control board shall furnish notification of any hearing or hearings held, wherein any licensee or his employee is found to have ...

66.44.300 Treats, gifts, purchases of liquor for or from minor, or holding out minor as at least twenty-one, in public place where liquor sold
Any person who invites a minor into a public place where liquor is sold and treats, gives or purchases liquor for such minor, or permits ...

66.44.310 Minors frequenting off-limits area -- Misrepresentation of age -- Penalty -- Classification of licensees
(1) Except as otherwise provided by RCW 66.44.316, 66.44.350, and 66.24.590, it shall be a misdemeanor: (a) To serve or allow to remain in any ...

66.44.316 Certain persons eighteen years and over permitted to enter and remain upon licensed premises during employment
It is lawful for: (1) Professional musicians, professional disc jockeys, or professional sound or lighting technicians actively engaged in support of professional musicians or professional ...

66.44.318 Employees aged eighteen to twenty-one stocking, merchandising, and handling beer and wine
Licensees holding nonretail class liquor licenses are permitted to allow their employees between [the] ages of eighteen and twenty-one to stock, merchandise, and handle beer ...

66.44.325 Unlawful transfer to minor of age identification
Any person who transfers in any manner an identification of age to a minor for the purpose of permitting such minor to obtain alcoholic beverages ...

66.44.328 Preparation or acquisition and supply to persons under age twenty-one of facsimile of official identification card -- Penalty
No person may forge, alter, counterfeit, otherwise prepare or acquire and supply to a person under the age of twenty-one years a facsimile of any ...

66.44.330 Prosecutions to be reported by prosecuting attorney and police court
See RCW 36.27.020(12). ...

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

66.44.350 Employees eighteen years and over allowed to serve and carry liquor, clean up, etc., for certain licensed employers
Notwithstanding provisions of RCW 66.44.310, employees holding beer and/or wine restaurant; beer and/or wine private club; snack bar; spirits, beer, and wine restaurant; spirits, beer, ...

66.44.365 Juvenile driving privileges -- Alcohol or drug violations
(1) If a juvenile thirteen years of age or older and under the age of eighteen is found by a court to have committed any ...

66.44.370 Resisting or opposing officers in enforcement of title
No person shall knowingly or wilfully resist or oppose any state, county, or municipal peace officer, or liquor enforcement officer, in the discharge of his/her ...

66.44.800 Compliance by Washington wine and beer commissions
(1) Nothing contained in chapter 15.88 RCW shall affect the compliance by the Washington wine commission with this chapter. (2) Nothing contained in chapter 15.89 ...