PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 95

PRINTER'S NO.  1908

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

SENATE BILL

 

No.

117

Session of

2011

  

  

INTRODUCED BY D. WHITE, ORIE, TOMLINSON, ALLOWAY, M. WHITE, CORMAN, RAFFERTY, BREWSTER, BOSCOLA, EARLL AND FARNESE, JANUARY 12, 2011

  

  

SENATOR CORMAN, APPROPRIATIONS, RE-REPORTED AS AMENDED, JANUARY 23, 2012   

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the offense of

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carrying a false identification card.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 6310.3 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:

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§ 6310.3.  Carrying a false identification card.

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(f)  Confiscation.--

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(1)  Any person who meets all of the following may 

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employee, servant or agent of a person authorized to sell

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liquor or malt or brewed beverages under the act of April 12,

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1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, may 

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confiscate an identification card that has been presented for

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the purposes of obtaining liquor or malt or brewed beverages

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when there is a reasonable suspicion that a person has

 


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presented an identification card as described in subsection

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(a):

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(i)  is authorized to sell liquor or malt or brewed

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beverages under the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90,

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No.21), known as the Liquor Code; and

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(ii)  verifies the ages of purchasers of liquor or

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malt or brewed beverages by placing identification cards

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through an electronic scanner.

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(a). An employee, servant or agent may confiscate an

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identification card upon reasonable suspicion that the age or

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date of birth is false only after placing the identification

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card through an electronic scanner.

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(2)  The identification card confiscated under this

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subsection shall be submitted to law enforcement personnel 

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the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the

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municipality in which the licensee's place of business is

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located within 48 hours after confiscation to make a

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determination of the validity of the identification card

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presented. The law enforcement agency shall return any

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confiscated identification card that is determined to be

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valid to the individual from whom it was confiscated.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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