PDFWAC 296-17A-6309
Classification 6309.
Wholesale or retail store operations primarily providing any combination of the following merchandise, supplies, or services:
• Antiques (variety);
• Art galleries;
• Bicycles;
• Door to door sales;
• Floor and countertop covering materials;
• Furniture kits, boxed;
• Guns;
• Hardware stores;
• Hot tubs and spas;
• Lawn and garden supplies, such as:
– Bags of potting soil, bark, compost;
– Hand tools;
– Powered and nonpowered mowers, edgers, aerators, weeders, and tillers;
– Seeds, bulbs, bedding plants, and small shrubs and trees;
– Specialized clothing;
– Hoses and sprinkler attachments;
– Wheelbarrows.
• Locksmiths dealing in products and services such as:
– Alarm systems;
– Duplicating keys;
– Field work such as unlocking cars, removing broken keys, and replacing lock sets;
– Locksets;
– Safes.
• Paint and wallpaper supplies;
• Parts for automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, and aircraft;
• Pawnshops (loan money in exchange for collateral; if loans are defaulted on, the collateral is stores' merchandise);
• Picture framing and u-frame shops;
• Sewing machines;
• Vacuum cleaners;
• Woodstoves;
• Stores primarily selling merchandise described by a store classification rated lower than 6309, but also sell merchandise described by a store classification higher rated than 6309;
• Stores otherwise entitled to classifications 6411 or 6406 that cannot, or do not, track and report worker hours for delivery, assembling merchandise, or in-store repair work separately.
Store operations include:
• Assembly of store merchandise at store location;
• Cashiering;
• Delivery;
• In store repair and adjustment of items sold in classification 6309, except for power tools and machinery specific to lawn and shop work, or motorized vehicles;
• Instructional classes;
• Inventory work by store employees;
• Merchandising and stocking of store;
• Parts and batteries for products included in class 6309;
• Receiving and returning merchandise at store's loading ramp;
• Renting items normally sold in classification 6309;
• All sales work inside store;
• Store security and surveillance.
Classification 6309 excludes:
• Manufacturing, fabrication, welding, and machining operations;
• Repair of powered tools, machinery, or equipment;
• Stores primarily selling merchandise described by a classification higher rated than 6309, which are assigned the classification that best represents their inventory;
• Outside repair work, other than by locksmiths;
• Outside installation work, other than replacement lock kits;
• Target or shooting ranges which are to be reported separately in classification 6208;
• Stores that also sell lumber and other building structure materials such as sheet rock, sheet metal, roofing material, insulation, or concrete, which are to be reported in classification 2009;
• Stores primarily selling:
– Electrical supplies;
– Farm supplies;
– Plumbing, irrigation, HVAC, or piping supplies
which are classified in 2009.
• Stores primarily selling plants, shrubs, and trees – See classifications 4805-00, Nurseries, N.O.C., and 4809, Greenhouses;
• Stores primarily selling glass or window products, which are classified in 1108.
For administrative purposes, classification 6309 is divided into the following subclassification(s):
6309-03 Bicycle or gun stores
6309-06 Yard and garden supply stores
6309-07 Locksmiths
6309-08 Parts stores for automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, or aircraft
6309-13 Hardware stores
6309-14 Hot tubs, spas, and woodstove stores
6309-15 Floor covering materials and supplies stores
6309-16 Pawn shops
6309-18 Paint and wallpaper and supplies stores
6309-19 Sewing machine and vacuum cleaner stores
6309-20 Art galleries, custom picture framing, and u-frame shops
6309-22 Door to door sales
6309-23 Stores included in 6309, but not described by another subclassification (N.O.C.)
6309-24 Antique variety stores
Antique variety stores sell a wide range of antiques. Antique stores that sell a specialized type of antique merchandise, are classified according to the type of merchandise that is sold.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 51.16.035. WSR 18-05-080, § 296-17A-6309, filed 2/20/18, effective 1/1/19. Statutory Authority: RCW 51.16.035 and WAC 296-17-31029. WSR 17-05-095, § 296-17A-6309, filed 2/14/17, effective 1/1/18. WSR 07-01-014, recodified as § 296-17A-6309, filed 12/8/06, effective 12/8/06. Statutory Authority: RCW 51.16.035, 51.16.100. WSR 06-12-075, § 296-17-704, filed 6/6/06, effective 1/1/07. Statutory Authority: RCW 51.16.035. WSR 99-18-068, § 296-17-704, filed 8/31/99, effective 10/1/99; WSR 98-18-042, § 296-17-704, filed 8/28/98, effective 10/1/98; WSR 96-12-039, § 296-17-704, filed 5/31/96, effective 7/1/96. Statutory Authority: RCW 51.04.020(1) and 51.16.035. WSR 94-12-063, § 296-17-704, filed 5/30/94, effective 6/30/94; WSR 93-12-093, § 296-17-704, filed 5/31/93, effective 7/1/93. Statutory Authority: RCW 51.16.035. WSR 87-12-032 (Order 87-12), § 296-17-704, filed 5/29/87, effective 7/1/87; WSR 85-24-032 (Order 85-33), § 296-17-704, filed 11/27/85, effective 1/1/86; WSR 85-06-026 (Order 85-7), § 296-17-704, filed 2/28/85, effective 4/1/85; WSR 83-24-017 (Order 83-36), § 296-17-704, filed 11/30/83, effective 1/1/84; WSR 82-24-047 (Order 82-38), § 296-17-704, filed 11/29/82, effective 1/1/83; Order 76-36, § 296-17-704, filed 11/30/76; Order 75-38, § 296-17-704, filed 11/24/75, effective 1/1/76; Order 73-22, § 296-17-704, filed 11/9/73, effective 1/1/74.]