PRINTER'S NO. 179
No. 178 Session of 1981
INTRODUCED BY CALTAGIRONE, COCHRAN AND LEHR, JANUARY 26, 1981
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, JANUARY 26, 1981
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 exempting collectors of miniature bottles from certain
18 provisions of the act.
19 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
20 hereby enacts as follows:
21 Section 1. Clause (1) of section 491, act of April 12, 1951
22 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the "Liquor Code," is amended to read:
23 Section 491. Unlawful Acts Relative to Liquor, Alcohol and
24 Liquor Licensees.--
25 It shall be unlawful--
1 (1) Sales of Liquor. For any person, by himself or by an
2 employe or agent, to expose or keep for sale, or directly or
3 indirectly, or upon any pretense or upon any device, to sell or
4 offer to sell any liquor within this Commonwealth, except in
5 accordance with the provisions of this act and the regulations
6 of the board. This clause shall not be construed to prohibit
7 hospitals, physicians, dentists or veterinarians who are
8 licensed and registered under the laws of this Commonwealth from
9 administering liquor in the regular course of their professional
10 work and taking into account the cost of the liquor so
11 administered in making charges for their professional service,
12 or a pharmacist duly licensed and registered under the laws of
13 this Commonwealth from dispensing liquor on a prescription of a
14 duly licensed physician, dentist or veterinarian, or selling
15 medical preparations containing alcohol, or using liquor in
16 compounding prescriptions or medicines and making a charge for
17 the liquor used in such medicines, or a manufacturing pharmacist
18 or chemist from using liquor in manufacturing preparations unfit
19 for beverage purposes and making a charge for the liquors so
20 used. All such liquors so administered or sold by hospitals,
21 physicians, dentists, veterinarians, pharmacists or chemists
22 shall conform to the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, the
23 National Formulary, or the American Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia.
24 This clause, nor any other clause in this section, shall not be
25 construed to prohibit collectors of miniature bottles (with or
26 without the contents) who are registered with the board as
27 collectors, on a form to be supplied by the board, from buying,
28 selling, trading or bartering miniature bottles from, to or with
29 other registered collectors within the Commonwealth or any
30 person outside the Commonwealth or from possessing miniature
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1 bottles without the official seal of the board affixed thereto.
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3 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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