PRINTER'S NO. 1091
No. 985 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY NICKOL, MAITLAND, WAUGH, ROONEY, DeLUCA,
L. I. COHEN, CLARK, LUCYK, BUNT, STABACK, MELIO, TIGUE,
MASLAND, McCALL, HENNESSEY, YOUNGBLOOD, LAUGHLIN, BOSCOLA,
PESCI, E. Z. TAYLOR, BELFANTI, OLASZ, TRELLO, HALUSKA,
SAINATO, McGEEHAN, PLATTS, SEYFERT, PETRARCA, CORNELL,
STEELMAN AND SAYLOR, MARCH 19, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, MARCH 19, 1997
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), entitled, as
2 reenacted, "An act relating to alcoholic liquors, alcohol and
3 malt and brewed beverages; amending, revising, consolidating
4 and 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 the time period of special occasion
18 permits.
19 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
20 hereby enacts as follows:
21 Section 1. Section 408.4(a) of the act of April 12, 1951
22 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, reenacted and amended
23 June 29, 1987 (P.L.32, No.14) and amended December 20, 1996
24 (P.L.1523, No.199), is amended to read:
1 Section 408.4. Special Occasion Permits.--(a) Upon
2 application of any hospital, church, synagogue, volunteer fire
3 company, volunteer ambulance company, volunteer rescue squad,
4 nonprofit agricultural association in existence for at least ten
5 years, bona fide sportsmen's club in existence for at least ten
6 years, nationally chartered veterans' organization and any
7 affiliated lodge or subdivision of such organization, fraternal
8 benefit society that is licensed to do business in this
9 Commonwealth and any affiliated lodge or subdivision of such
10 fraternal benefit society, or the auxiliary of any of the
11 foregoing, and upon payment of the prescribed fee for special
12 occasion permits under section 614-A of the act of April 9, 1929
13 (P.L.177, No.175), known as "The Administrative Code of 1929,"
14 the board shall issue a special occasion permit good for a
15 period of not more than [five] six consecutive or nonconsecutive
16 days: Provided, however, That the [five] six nonconsecutive days
17 shall be used in a [three-month] twelve-month period measured
18 from the date of the first day. Special occasion permits may
19 also be issued to a museum operated by a nonprofit corporation
20 in a city of the third class or township of the first class or a
21 nonprofit corporation engaged in the performing arts in a city
22 of the third class or in an incorporated town for a period of
23 not more than six nonconsecutive or ten consecutive days at the
24 prescribed fee for special occasion permits under section 614-A
25 of "The Administrative Code of 1929."
26 * * *
27 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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