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                                                       PRINTER'S NO. 531

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 489 Session of 1989


        INTRODUCED BY TRELLO, SALOOM, CIVERA, MELIO, LAUGHLIN, COLAIZZO,
           WOZNIAK, CORRIGAN, ITKIN, PISTELLA, VAN HORNE, HALUSKA,
           RAYMOND, GANNON, KOSINSKI, LEVDANSKY, DALEY, TIGUE, FOX,
           BILLOW, VEON, RICHARDSON AND REBER, FEBRUARY 14, 1989

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, FEBRUARY 14, 1989

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), entitled "An
     2     act relating to alcoholic liquors, alcohol and malt and
     3     brewed beverages; amending, revising, consolidating and
     4     changing the laws relating thereto; regulating and
     5     restricting the manufacture, purchase, sale, possession,
     6     consumption, importation, transportation, furnishing, holding
     7     in bond, holding in storage, traffic in and use of alcoholic
     8     liquors, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages and the
     9     persons engaged or employed therein; defining the powers and
    10     duties of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board; providing
    11     for the establishment and operation of State liquor stores,
    12     for the payment of certain license fees to the respective
    13     municipalities and townships, for the abatement of certain
    14     nuisances and, in certain cases, for search and seizure
    15     without warrant; prescribing penalties and forfeitures;
    16     providing for local option, and repealing existing laws,"
    17     further providing for special occasion permits.

    18     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    19  hereby enacts as follows:
    20     Section 1.  Section 408.4(a) of the act of April 12, 1951
    21  (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, reenacted and amended
    22  June 29, 1987 (P.L.32, No.14), is amended to read:
    23     Section 408.4.  Special Occasion Permits.--(a)  Upon
    24  application of any hospital, church, synagogue, volunteer fire


     1  company, volunteer ambulance company, volunteer rescue squad,
     2  bona fide sportsmen's club in existence for at least ten years,
     3  or the auxiliary of any of the foregoing, and upon payment of a
     4  fee of fifteen dollars ($15) per day, the board shall issue a
     5  special occasion permit good for a period of not more than five
     6  consecutive or nonconsecutive days: Provided, however, That the
     7  five nonconsecutive days shall be used in a three-month period
     8  measured from the date of the first day. Special occasion
     9  permits may also be issued to a museum operated by a nonprofit
    10  corporation in a city of the third class or a nonprofit
    11  corporation engaged in the performing arts in a city of the
    12  third class for a period of not more than six nonconsecutive or
    13  ten consecutive days at a fee of fifteen dollars ($15) per day.
    14  In addition, a special occasion permit may be issued to any
    15  church, synagogue, volunteer fire company or charitable
    16  organization once a year for a period of seven consecutive days
    17  for the purpose of allowing "Monte Carlo Night."
    18     * * *
    19     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.








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