THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY CONKLIN, GERGELY, MELIO, MILLARD, REICHLEY, BRENNAN, SIPTROTH, SANTONI, VULAKOVICH, JOSEPHS, D. COSTA AND YOUNGBLOOD, MAY 13, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, MAY 13, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), entitled, as

reenacted, "An act relating to alcoholic liquors, alcohol and

malt and brewed beverages; amending, revising, consolidating

and changing the laws relating thereto; regulating and

restricting the manufacture, purchase, sale, possession,

consumption, importation, transportation, furnishing, holding

in bond, holding in storage, traffic in and use of alcoholic

liquors, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages and the

persons engaged or employed therein; defining the powers and

duties of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board; providing

for the establishment and operation of State liquor stores,

for the payment of certain license fees to the respective

municipalities and townships, for the abatement of certain

nuisances and, in certain cases, for search and seizure

without warrant; prescribing penalties and forfeitures;

providing for local option, and repealing existing laws,"

further providing for definitions.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  The definition of "eligible entity" in section

102 of the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the

Liquor Code, reenacted and amended June 29, 1987 (P.L.32, No.14)

and amended November 29, 2006 (P.L.1421, No.155), is amended to

read:

Section 102.  Definitions.--The following words or phrases,

unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the

meanings ascribed to them in this section:

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"Eligible entity" shall mean a city of the third class, a

hospital, a church, a synagogue, a volunteer fire company, a

volunteer ambulance company, a volunteer rescue squad, a unit of

a nationally chartered club which has been issued a club liquor

license, a club in a city of the third class which has been

issued a club liquor license and which, as of December 31, 2002,

has been in existence for at least 100 years, a library, a

nationally accredited Pennsylvania nonprofit zoological

institution licensed by the United States Department of

Agriculture, a nonprofit agricultural association in existence

for at least ten years, a bona fide sportsmen's club in

existence for at least ten years, a nationally chartered

veterans' organization and any affiliated lodge or subdivision

of such organization, a fraternal benefit society that is

licensed to do business in this Commonwealth and any affiliated

lodge or subdivision of such fraternal benefit society, a museum

operated by a nonprofit corporation in a city of the third class

or township of the first class, a nonprofit corporation engaged

in the performing arts in a city of the third class, borough or

in an incorporated town, an arts council, a nonprofit

corporation that operates an arts facility or museum in a city

of the third class in the county of the fourth class, a

nonprofit organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the

Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Public Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. §

501(c)(3)) whose purpose is to protect the architectural

heritage of boroughs and which has been recognized as such by a

municipal resolution, a nonprofit organization as defined under

section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Public

Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) conducting a regatta in a

city of the second class with the permit to be used on State

park grounds or conducting a family-oriented celebration as part

of Welcome America in a city of the first class on property

leased from that city for more than fifty years, a nonprofit

organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal

Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) whose purpose is to

raise funds for the research and treatment of cystic fibrosis, a

nonprofit organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the

Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) whose

purpose is to educate the public on issues dealing with

watershed conservation, a nonprofit organization as defined

under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986

(Public Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) whose purpose is to

provide equine assisted activities for children and adults with

special needs, a nonprofit economic development agency in a city

of the second class with the primary function to serve as an

economic generator for the greater southwestern Pennsylvania

region by attracting and supporting film, television and related

media industry projects and coordinating government and business

offices in support of a production, a county tourist promotion

agency as defined in section 3(1) of the act of April 28, 1961

(P.L.111, No.50), known as the "Tourist Promotion Law," and

located in a city of the third class in a county of the fourth

class or located in a township of the second class in a county

of the fifth class, a junior league in a third class county that

is a nonprofit organization as defined under section 501(c)(3)

of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3))

that is comprised of women whose purpose is exclusively

educational and charitable in promoting the volunteerism of

women and developing and participating in community projects and

that has been in existence for over seventy years or a nonprofit

organization as defined under section 501(C)(6) of the Internal

Revenue Code of 1986 which is located in a city of the third

class in a county of the third class and whose purpose is to

support business and industry or a noncommercial educational

public radio or television station that is eligible for

qualification under the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.