SENATE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1939 PRINTER'S NO. 3038
No. 1549 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY PRATT AND GRUITZA, JUNE 26, 1985
SENATOR SHUMAKER, LAW AND JUSTICE, IN SENATE, AS AMENDED,
MARCH 12, 1986
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 providing for special provisions for exchange of hotel liquor
18 licenses.
19 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
20 hereby enacts as follows:
21 Section 1. The act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known
22 as the Liquor Code, is amended by adding a section to read:
23 Section 470.2. Exchange of Hotel Liquor License; Special
24 Provisions.--In any case where the board finds that the holder
1 of a hotel liquor license cannot comply with the provisions of
2 section 461(c) because during 1985 the premises for which said
3 license was issued was destroyed or substantially damaged by a
4 natural disaster WHICH RESULTED IN A PRESIDENTIAL DECLARATION OF <--
5 AN EMERGENCY OR OF A MAJOR DISASTER, the board shall,
6 notwithstanding the quota provisions of this act, upon receipt
7 of an application for a restaurant liquor license together with
8 appropriate fees and bond, receive the hotel liquor license and
9 issue in exchange for said license a restaurant liquor license.
10 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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