PRINTER'S NO. 2139
No. 1697 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY COHEN, AUGUST 27, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, SEPTEMBER 22, 1975
AN ACT
1 Providing for free admission to certain lectures, courses of
2 instruction, seminars and presentations for media reporters
3 and certain other persons.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Any course of instruction, lecture, seminar or
7 presentation not given for academic credit for which an
8 attendance fee in excess of $10 is charged shall be open free of
9 charge to any reporter for a newspaper, magazine, radio station
10 or television station, and to any officer or employee of the
11 Pennsylvania Department of Education, the Pennsylvania Bureau of
12 Consumer Protection, or the District Attorney's office of the
13 county in which such course, lecture, seminar or presentation is
14 given; provided that such officer or employee be in attendance
15 for occupation-related or official purpose.
16 Section 2. Any reporter, official or employee so present
17 shall be allowed to take notes and make tape-recordings in full
18 or in part, of the proceeding of the course, lecture, seminar or
19 presentation.
1 Section 3. Any person who fails to comply with any provision
2 of this act shall be liable for a civil penalty of three times
3 the amount of the tuition or fee of the course, lecture, seminar
4 or presentation in addition to attorney's fees for the
5 plaintiff. An additional remedy shall be injunctive relief
6 which, if granted, shall prohibit the course, lecture, seminar
7 or presentation from being presented within the Commonwealth of
8 Pennsylvania.
9 Section 4. The provisions of this act shall not include any
10 course of instruction, lecture, seminar or presentation given by
11 any professional association or society solely for the benefit
12 of its members.
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