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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 4150

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 2728 Session of 2006


        INTRODUCED BY VEON, GERGELY, JAMES, MANN, SIPTROTH, WALKO AND
           BUNT, JUNE 7, 2006

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, JUNE 7, 2006

                                     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 sale of malt or brewed beverages by
    18     liquor licensees.

    19     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    20  hereby enacts as follows:
    21     Section 1.  Section 407(a) of the act of April 12, 1951
    22  (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, reenacted and amended
    23  June 29, 1987 (P.L.32, No.14) and amended July 6, 2005 (P.L.135,
    24  No.39), is amended to read:
    25     Section 407.  Sale of Malt or Brewed Beverages by Liquor


     1  Licensees.--(a)  Every liquor license issued to a hotel,
     2  restaurant, club, or a railroad, pullman or steamship company
     3  under this subdivision (A) for the sale of liquor shall
     4  authorize the licensee to sell malt or brewed beverages at the
     5  same places but subject to the same restrictions and penalties
     6  as apply to sales of liquor, except that licensees [other than
     7  clubs] may sell malt or brewed beverages for consumption off the
     8  premises where sold in quantities of not more than one hundred
     9  ninety-two fluid ounces in a single sale to one person. No
    10  licensee under this subdivision (A) shall at the same time be
    11  the holder of any other class of license, except a retail
    12  dispenser's license authorizing the sale of malt or brewed
    13  beverages only.
    14     * * *
    15     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.










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