PRINTER'S NO. 655
No. 586 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY ROMANELLI, PIEVSKY, CAPUTO, CESSAR, ZORD AND
DOMBROWSKI, FEBRUARY 26, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, MARCH 3, 1975
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), entitled "An
2 act relating to alcoholic liquors, alcohol and malt and
3 brewed beverages; amending, revising, consolidating and
4 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 authorizing the acceptance of credit cards by State stores
18 and further providing for acceptance of checks.
19 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
20 hereby enacts as follows:
21 Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 305, act of April 12,
22 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the "Liquor Code," amended
23 October 2, 1974 (No.222), is amended to read:
24 Section 305. Sales by Pennsylvania Liquor Stores.--* * *
25 (b) Every Pennsylvania Liquor Store shall sell liquors at
26 wholesale to hotels, restaurants, clubs, and railroad, pullman
1 and steamship companies licensed under this act; and, under the
2 regulations of the board, to pharmacists duly licensed and
3 registered under the laws of the Commonwealth, and to
4 manufacturing pharmacists, and to reputable hospitals approved
5 by the board, or chemists. The board may sell to registered
6 pharmacists only such liquors as conform to the Pharmacopoeia of
7 the United States, the National Formulary, or the American
8 Homeopathic Pharmacopeia. The board may sell at special prices
9 under the regulations of the board, to United States Armed
10 Forces facilities which are located on United States Armed
11 Forces installations and are conducted pursuant to the authority
12 and regulations of the United States Armed Forces. All other
13 sales by such stores shall be at retail. [No liquor] Liquor
14 shall be sold [except] for cash, [except that] but the board
15 may, by regulation, authorize the acceptance of checks or credit
16 cards for liquor sold either at wholesale or retail. The board
17 shall have power to designate certain stores for wholesale or
18 retail sales exclusively.
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