PRINTER'S NO. 3508
No. 2439 Session of 2006
INTRODUCED BY WOJNAROSKI, SANTONI, TIGUE, CALTAGIRONE, GOODMAN,
DeWEESE, DENLINGER, LaGROTTA, BIANCUCCI, SONNEY, HALUSKA,
MANN, MILLARD, BEBKO-JONES, THOMAS, CRAHALLA, KOTIK, RUBLEY,
GERGELY, JAMES, YOUNGBLOOD, FABRIZIO, GRUCELA, REICHLEY,
READSHAW, YUDICHAK, LEH, PETRARCA, MYERS, BELFANTI, SIPTROTH
AND HARPER, FEBRUARY 7, 2006
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, FEBRUARY 7, 2006
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 defining "eligible entity."
18 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
19 hereby enacts as follows:
20 Section 1. The definition of "eligibility entity" in section
21 102 of the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the
22 Liquor Code, reenacted and amended June 29, 1987 (P.L.32, No.14)
23 and amended January 6, 2006 (P.L.1, No.1), is amended to read:
1 Section 102. Definitions.--The following words or phrases,
2 unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the
3 meanings ascribed to them in this section:
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5 "Eligible entity" shall mean a city of the third class, a
6 hospital, a church, a synagogue, a volunteer fire company, a
7 volunteer ambulance company, a volunteer rescue squad, a unit of
8 a nationally chartered club which has been issued a club liquor
9 license, a club in a city of the third class which has been
10 issued a club liquor license and which, as of December 31, 2002,
11 has been in existence for at least 100 years, a library, a
12 nationally accredited Pennsylvania nonprofit zoological
13 institution licensed by the United States Department of
14 Agriculture, a nonprofit agricultural association in existence
15 for at least ten years, a bona fide sportsmen's club in
16 existence for at least ten years, a nationally chartered
17 veterans' organization and any affiliated lodge or subdivision
18 of such organization, a fraternal benefit society that is
19 licensed to do business in this Commonwealth and any affiliated
20 lodge or subdivision of such fraternal benefit society, a museum
21 operated by a nonprofit corporation in a city of the third class
22 or township of the first class, a nonprofit corporation engaged
23 in the performing arts in a city of the third class, borough or
24 in an incorporated town, an arts council, a nonprofit
25 corporation that operates an arts facility or museum in a city
26 of the third class in the county of the fourth class, a
27 nonprofit organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the
28 Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Public Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. §
29 501(c)(3)) whose purpose is to protect the architectural
30 heritage of boroughs and which has been recognized as such by a
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1 municipal resolution, a nonprofit organization as defined under
2 section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Public
3 Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) conducting a regatta in a
4 city of the second class with the permit to be used on State
5 park grounds or conducting a family-oriented celebration as part
6 of Welcome America in a city of the first class on property
7 leased from that city for more than fifty years, a nonprofit
8 organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
9 Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) whose purpose is to
10 raise funds for the research and treatment of cystic fibrosis, a
11 nonprofit organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the
12 Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) whose
13 purpose is to educate the public on issues dealing with
14 watershed conservation, a nonprofit economic development agency
15 in a city of the second class with the primary function to serve
16 as an economic generator for the greater southwestern
17 Pennsylvania region by attracting and supporting film,
18 television and related media industry projects and coordinating
19 government and business offices in support of a production, a
20 county tourist promotion agency as defined in section 3(1) of
21 the act of April 28, 1961 (P.L.111, No.50), known as the Tourist
22 Promotion Law, or a junior league in a third class county that
23 is a nonprofit organization as defined under section 501(c)(3)
24 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. § 501 (c)(3))
25 that is comprised of women whose purpose is exclusively
26 educational and charitable in promoting the volunteerism of
27 women and developing and participating in community projects and
28 that has been in existence for over seventy years.
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30 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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