PRINTER'S NO. 4017
No. 2947 Session of 1992
INTRODUCED BY HASAY, MICOZZIE AND M. N. WRIGHT,
SEPTEMBER 23, 1992
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, SEPTEMBER 23, 1992
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 Sunday sales permits.
18 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
19 hereby enacts as follows:
20 Section 1. Sections 406(a)(3) and 432(f) of the act of April
21 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, reenacted
22 and amended June 29, 1987 (P.L.32, No.14), are amended to read:
23 Section 406. Sales by Liquor Licensees; Restrictions.--(a)
24 * * *
25 (3) Hotel and restaurant liquor licensees, airport
1 restaurant liquor licensees, municipal golf course restaurant
2 liquor licensees and privately-owned public golf course
3 restaurant licensees whose sales of food and nonalcoholic
4 beverages are equal to forty per centum or more of the combined
5 gross sales of both food and alcoholic beverages may sell liquor
6 and malt or brewed beverages on Sunday between the hours of
7 eleven o'clock antemeridian and two o'clock antemeridian Monday
8 upon purchase of a special annual permit from the board at a fee
9 of two hundred dollars ($200.00) per year, which shall be in
10 addition to any other license fees. The sales of malt and brewed
11 beverages for consumption off the premises shall not be included
12 in the combined gross sales of both food and alcoholic beverages
13 in calculating the sales requirements for the purchase of a
14 special annual permit.
15 * * *
16 Section 432. Malt and Brewed Beverages Retail Licenses.--* *
17 *
18 (f) Hotel, eating places, or municipal golf course retail
19 dispenser licensees whose sales of food and nonalcoholic
20 beverages are equal to forty per centum (40%) or more of the
21 combined gross sales of both food and malt or brewed beverages
22 may sell malt or brewed beverages between the hours of eleven
23 o'clock antemeridian on Sunday and two o'clock antemeridian on
24 Monday upon purchase of a special annual permit from the board
25 at a fee of two hundred dollars ($200.00) per year, which shall
26 be in addition to any other license fees. Provided further, the
27 holder of such special annual permit may sell malt or brewed
28 beverages after seven o'clock antemeridian and until two o'clock
29 antemeridian of the following day, on any day on which a
30 general, municipal, special or primary election is being held.
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1 The sales of malt and brewed beverages for consumption off the
2 premises shall not be included in the combined gross sales of
3 both food and alcoholic beverages in calculating the sales
4 requirements for the purchase of a special annual permit.
5 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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