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PRINTER'S NO. 668
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
677
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY SCHWANK, FONTANA, BLAKE, SMITH, COSTA, VULAKOVICH,
HUGHES AND BROWNE, MARCH 31, 2015
REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, MARCH 31, 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 the definition
of "eligible entity."
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definition of "eligible entity" 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)
and amended July 5, 2012 (P.L.1007, No.116), is amended to read:
Section 102. Definitions.--The following words or phrases,
unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the
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meanings ascribed to them in this section:
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"Eligible entity" shall mean a city of the third class, a
hospital, a church, a synagogue, a volunteer fire company, a
volunteer ambulance company, a volunteer rescue squad, a unit of
a nationally chartered club which has been issued a club liquor
license, a club which has been issued a club liquor license and
which, as of December 31, 2002, has been in existence for at
least 100 years, a library, a nationally accredited Pennsylvania
nonprofit zoological institution licensed by the United States
Department of Agriculture, a nonprofit agricultural association
in existence for at least ten years, a bona fide sportsmen's
club in existence for at least ten years, a nationally chartered
veterans' organization and any affiliated lodge or subdivision
of such organization, a fraternal benefit society that is
licensed to do business in this Commonwealth and any affiliated
lodge or subdivision of such fraternal benefit society, a museum
operated by a nonprofit corporation, a nonprofit corporation
engaged in the performing arts, an arts council, a nonprofit
corporation that operates an arts facility or museum, a
nonprofit organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Public Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. §
501(c)(3)) whose purpose is to protect the architectural
heritage of [boroughs or a township of the second class] a
municipality and which has been recognized as such by a
[municipal] resolution of the municipality, a nonprofit
organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 (Public Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3))
conducting a regatta in a city of the second class with the
permit to be used on State park grounds or conducting a family-
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oriented celebration as part of Welcome America in a city of the
first class on property leased from that city for more than
fifty years, a nonprofit organization as defined under section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. §
501(c)(3)) whose purpose is to raise funds for the research and
treatment of cystic fibrosis, a nonprofit organization as
defined under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) whose purpose is to educate the
public on issues dealing with watershed conservation, a
nonprofit organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Public Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. §
501(c)(3)) whose purpose is to provide equine assisted
activities for children and adults with special needs, a
nonprofit economic development agency in a city of the second
class with the primary function to serve as an economic
generator for the greater southwestern Pennsylvania region by
attracting and supporting film, television and related media
industry projects and coordinating government and business
offices in support of a production, a county tourist promotion
agency as defined in section 3(1) of the act of April 28, 1961
(P.L.111, No.50), known as the "Tourist Promotion Law," a junior
league that is a nonprofit organization as defined under section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. §
501(c)(3)) that is comprised of women whose purpose is
exclusively educational and charitable in promoting the
volunteerism of women and developing and participating in
community projects and that has been in existence for over
seventy years, a nonprofit organization as defined under section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and whose purpose
is the education and promotion of American history, a nonprofit
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organization as defined under section 501(c)(6) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 whose purpose is to support business and
industry, a brewery which has been issued a license to
manufacture malt or brewed beverages and has been in existence
for at least 100 years or a club recognized by Rotary
International and whose purpose is to provide service to others,
to promote high ethical standards and to advance world
understanding, goodwill and peace through its fellowship of
business, professional and community leaders or a nonprofit
organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 (Public Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3))
whose purpose is to promote mushrooms while supporting local and
regional charities, a museum operated by a not-for-profit
corporation in a city of the second class A, a nonprofit
organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 which is located in a city of the second
class A and has as its purpose economic and community
development, a nonprofit organization as defined under section
501(c)(3) or (6) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that is
located in a city of the third class in a county of the fifth
class, a nonprofit social service organization defined under
section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 located
in a county of the third class whose purpose is to serve
individuals and families in that county of the third class, a
nonprofit organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 whose main purpose is to
temporarily foster stray and unwanted animals and match them to
suitable permanent homes or a nonprofit organization as defined
under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 who
operates either a Main Street Program or Elm Street Program
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recognized by the Commonwealth, the National Trust for Historic
Preservation or both, a nonprofit radio station that is a member
of the National Public Radio network, a nonprofit public
television station that is a member of the Pennsylvania Public
Television Network or a nonprofit organization as defined under
section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 whose
purpose is to promote awareness, education and research and to
provide a support system for patients with neutropenia and their
families through a national resource network.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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