PRINTER'S NO. 2294
No. 1769 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY PAYNE, HARRIS, O'NEILL, REICHLEY AND SCAVELLO,
JUNE 30, 2003
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, JUNE 30, 2003
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 prohibition.
18 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
19 hereby enacts as follows:
20 Section 1. Section 214 of the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90,
21 No.21), known as the Liquor Code, reenacted and amended June 29,
22 1987 (P.L.32, No.14), is amended by adding a subsection to read:
23 Section 214. Prohibitions.--* * *
24 (c) The board shall not purchase alcohol from other than its
25 primary American source of supply which is the brand owner, or a
1 person authorized by that brand owner, of the alcohol offered
2 for purchase to the board. A "brand owner" in the case of
3 domestic alcohol is the distiller, producer, owner of the
4 alcohol at the time it becomes marketable, bottler or the
5 exclusive agent of any such person. In the case of alcohol
6 imported into the United States, a "brand owner" is the foreign
7 distiller, producer, owner, bottler or the prime importer for or
8 the exclusive agent in the United States of the foreign
9 distiller, producer, owner or bottler.
10 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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