PRINTER'S NO. 581
No. 527 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY TOLL, SULLIVAN, JOHNSON, RIEGER, VANN, CESSAR,
PIEVSKY, BARBER, GREENFIELD, McGINNIS, GIAMMARCO, ROMANELLI,
A. P. KELLY, PERRY, DiDONATO, COHEN, OLIVER, USTYNOSKI AND
HAMMOCK, FEBRUARY 19, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, FEBRUARY 19, 1975
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 regulating the transfer of a license.
18 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
19 hereby enacts as follows:
20 Section 1. Section 402, act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90,
21 No.21), known as the "Liquor Code," is amended to read:
22 Section 402. License Districts; License Year; Hearings.--The
23 board shall, by regulation, divide the State into convenient
24 license districts and shall hold hearings on applications for
1 licenses, transfers and renewals thereof, as it deems necessary,
2 at a convenient place or places in each of said districts, at
3 such times as it shall fix, by regulation, for the purpose of
4 hearing testimony for and against applications for new licenses,
5 transfers and renewals thereof. The board may provide for the
6 holding of such hearings by examiners learned in the law, to be
7 appointed by the Governor, who shall not be subject to the
8 "Civil Service Act." Such examiners shall make report to the
9 board in each case with their recommendations. The board shall,
10 by regulation, fix the license year for each separate district
11 so that the expiration dates shall be uniform in each of the
12 several districts but staggered as to the State.
13 Section 2. Subsection (g) of section 403 of the act, amended
14 November 19, 1959 (P.L.1546, No.553), is amended to read:
15 Section 403. Applications for Hotel, Restaurant and Club
16 Liquor Licenses.--* * *
17 (g) Every applicant for a new license, for the transfer of
18 an existing license to another person or for the transfer of an
19 existing license to another premises not then licensed shall
20 post, for a period of at least fifteen days beginning with the
21 day the application is filed with the board, in a conspicuous
22 place on the outside of the premises or at the proposed new
23 location for which the license is applied, a notice of such
24 application, in such form, of such size, and containing such
25 provisions as the board may require by its regulations. Proof of
26 the posting of such notice shall be filed with the board.
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