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PRINTER'S NO. 556
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
588
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY KITCHEN, BREWSTER, RAFFERTY, WILLIAMS, COSTA,
HUGHES AND BLAKE, MARCH 2, 2015
REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, MARCH 2, 2015
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), entitled, as
reenacted, "An act relating to alcoholic liquors, alcohol and
malt and brewed beverages; amending, revising, consolidating
and changing the laws relating thereto; regulating and
restricting the manufacture, purchase, sale, possession,
consumption, importation, transportation, furnishing, holding
in bond, holding in storage, traffic in and use of alcoholic
liquors, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages and the
persons engaged or employed therein; defining the powers and
duties of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board; providing
for the establishment and operation of State liquor stores,
for the payment of certain license fees to the respective
municipalities and townships, for the abatement of certain
nuisances and, in certain cases, for search and seizure
without warrant; prescribing penalties and forfeitures;
providing for local option, and repealing existing laws," in
preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions;
and, in licenses and regulations, liquor, alcohol and malt
and brewed beverages, further providing for unlawful acts
relative to liquor, alcohol and liquor licensees.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definitions of "alcohol," "denatured alcohol"
and "liquor" in section 102 of the act of April 12, 1951
(P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, reenacted and amended
June 29, 1987 (P.L.32, No.14), are amended and the section is
amended by adding a definition to read:
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Section 102. Definitions.--The following words or phrases,
unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the
meanings ascribed to them in this section:
"Alcohol" shall mean ethyl alcohol of any degree of proof
originally produced by the distillation of any fermented liquid,
whether rectified or diluted with or without water, whatever may
be the origin thereof, and shall include powered alcohol and
synthetic ethyl alcohol, but shall not mean or include ethyl
alcohol, whether or not diluted, that has been denatured or
otherwise rendered unfit for beverage purposes.
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"Denatured alcohol" shall mean and include all alcohol or any
compound thereof which by the admixture of such denaturing
material or materials is rendered unfit for use as a beverage.
The term shall not include powered alcohol.
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"Liquor" shall mean and include any alcoholic, spirituous,
vinous, fermented or other alcoholic beverage, powered alcohol,
or combination of liquors and mixed liquor a part of which is
spirituous, vinous, fermented or otherwise alcoholic, including
all drinks or drinkable liquids, preparations or mixtures, and
reused, recovered or redistilled denatured alcohol usable or
taxable for beverage purposes which contain more than one-half
of one per cent of alcohol by volume, except pure ethyl alcohol
and malt or brewed beverages.
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"Powdered alcohol" shall mean alcohol sold in a powder form
for either direct use or reconstitution.
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Section 2. Section 491 of the act is amended by adding a
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paragraph to read:
Section 491. Unlawful Acts Relative to Liquor, Alcohol and
Liquor Licensees.--
It shall be unlawful--
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(15) Possession or sale of powdered alcohol. For any person
to possess, purchase, sell, offer to sell or use powdered
alcohol, but this paragraph shall not apply to a hospital that
operates primarily for the purpose of conducting scientific
research, a State institution conducting bona fide research, a
private college or university conducting bona fide research or a
pharmaceutical company conducting bona fide research.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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