LCB Takes Comments Until January 11, 2014 About Minors Engaging in Wine Tasting as Part of Classes
The Washington State Liquor Control Board would like your input on the attached proposed rule to implement SSB 5774 from the 2013 legislative session, WAC 314-38-060 Special Permit for technical or community colleges as authorized by RCW 66.20.010 (12) shall be called a class 15 permit. These rules were filed with the Code Reviser’s Office on November 20, 2013.
This notice contains the actual text of the proposed rule. You can provide input by submitting written comments or by participating in the public hearing (see below).
This notice can be found at http://www.liq.wa.gov/laws/laws-and-rules under Proposed Rules.
The Liquor Control Board encourages you to give input on the rule. Following the comment period, the agency will send out and publish the proposed rule, establish a comment period on the proposed rule, and hold at least one public hearing before rules are adopted.
Public Comment
Please forward your initial comments to the Liquor Control Board by mail, e-mail, or fax by January 8, 2014.
By mail: Liquor Control Board Rules Coordinator P.O. Box 43080
Olympia, WA 98504-3080
By e-mail: rules@liq.wa.gov
By fax: 360-360-664-9689
** Public Hearing: January 8, 2014, 10:00 a.m. **
Washington State Liquor Control Board – Board Room
3000 Pacific Ave. S.E, Olympia, WA CR 102 – Notice to Stakeholders 11/20/13 Class 15 permit
Text of Change Below
NEW SECTION
WAC 314-38-060 Special permit for technical or community colleges as authorized by RCW 66.20.010(12) shall be called a class 15 permit. (1) The class 15 permit allows tasting of alcohol by persons between eighteen and twenty years old. The requirements for a class 15 permit are as follows:
(a) The permit applicant is a technical or community college;
(b) The permit allows tasting, not consuming of alcohol as part of the class curriculum with approval of the educational provider;
(c) The student must be enrolled in a required or elective class at the college premises as part of a culinary, beer technology, wine technology, or spirituous technology-related degree program;
(d) The alcohol served to any person in the program under twenty-one years of age is tasted but not consumed for the CR 102 – Notice to Stakeholders 11/20/13 Class 15 permit purpose of educational training as part of the class curriculum with the approval of the educational provider;
(e) Faculty or staff of the educational provider must be at least twenty-one years of age, supervise the service and tasting, and hold a class 12 or class 13 alcohol server permit; and
(f) Students may not purchase the alcoholic beverages.
(2) There is no annual fee for this permit.