Gambling & Gaming in Yakima County, WA (2026)
1 rule for unincorporated Yakima County, Washington.
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Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Yakima County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.
Card Room Licensing
Yakima County allows social card rooms only in zones that already permit them and never within 500 feet of a school, church, or park. County Code § 19.18.430 sets that buffer, while Chapter 3.16 taxes gross receipts from social card games at ten percent, paid quarterly to the county treasurer.
Yakima County Social Card Room Rules
Significant RestrictionsYCC § 19.18.430; § 3.16.020(5); § 3.16.060
§ 19.18.430: In zones where allowed, no social card room shall be permitted within 500 feet of any public school, private school (meeting the requirements for private schools under Title 28A RCW, church or park, as measured according to RCW 66.24.010(9)) or as the same may be hereafter amended. § 3.16.020(5): On social card games in the amount of the gross receipts received therefrom multiplied...
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