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Section 1. The definition of "eligible entity" in section
102 of the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the
Liquor Code, is amended to read:
Section 102. Definitions.--The following words or phrases,
unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the
meanings ascribed to them in this section:
* * *
"Eligible entity" shall mean a city of the third class, a
hospital, a church, a synagogue, a volunteer fire company, a
volunteer ambulance company, a volunteer rescue squad, a unit of
a nationally chartered club which has been issued a club liquor
license, a club which has been issued a club liquor license and
which, as of December 31, 2002, has been in existence for at
least 100 years, a library, a nationally accredited Pennsylvania
nonprofit zoological institution licensed by the United States
Department of Agriculture, a nonprofit agricultural association
in existence for at least ten years, a bona fide sportsmen's
club in existence for at least ten years, a nationally chartered
veterans' organization and any affiliated lodge or subdivision
of such organization, a fraternal benefit society that is
licensed to do business in this Commonwealth and any affiliated
lodge or subdivision of such fraternal benefit society, any
nationally recognized community-based voluntary health
organization committed to fighting cancer, which has been in
existence for at least 100 years, a museum operated by a
nonprofit corporation, a nonprofit corporation engaged in the
performing arts, an arts council, a nonprofit corporation that
operates an arts facility or museum, a nonprofit organization as
defined under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 (Public Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) whose purpose is
to protect the architectural heritage of a municipality and
which has been recognized as such by a resolution of the
municipality, a nonprofit organization as defined under section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Public Law 99-
514, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) conducting a regatta in a city of
the second class with the permit to be used on State park
grounds or conducting a family-oriented celebration as part of
Welcome America in a city of the first class on property leased
from that city for more than fifty years, a nonprofit
organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) whose purpose is to
raise funds for the research and treatment of cystic fibrosis, a
nonprofit organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) whose
purpose is to educate the public on issues dealing with
watershed conservation, a nonprofit organization as defined
under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
(Public Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) whose purpose is to
provide equine or canine assisted activities for children and
adults with special needs, a nonprofit economic development
agency in a city of the second class with the primary function
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