PRINTER'S NO. 1904
No. 1434 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY MELLOW, MUSTO AND WAGNER, APRIL 20, 2000
REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, APRIL 20, 2000
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 performing arts facilities in certain
18 municipalities.
19 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
20 hereby enacts as follows:
21 Section 1. Section 408.6 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), is amended by adding a subsection
24 to read:
25 Section 408.6. Performing Arts Facilities in Certain
1 Municipalities.--* * *
2 (a.3) The board is authorized to issue a restaurant liquor
3 license to a third class county, to a municipal authority
4 created under the act of May 2, 1945 (P.L.382, No.164), known as
5 the "Municipality Authorities Act of 1945," or to a
6 concessionaire selected by such county or municipal authority
7 for the retail sale of liquor and malt and brewed beverages by
8 the glass, open bottle or other container or in any mixture for
9 consumption in a performing arts facility which is owned or
10 operated by such third class county or municipal authority,
11 which is permanently located at a single site and which has a
12 seating capacity for at least three thousand persons, except
13 that no sale or consumption of the items described above shall
14 take place on any portion of the premises other than service
15 areas approved by the board.
16 * * *
17 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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