PRINTER'S NO.  95

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

SENATE BILL

 

No.

117

Session of

2011

  

  

INTRODUCED BY D. WHITE, ORIE, TOMLINSON, ALLOWAY, M. WHITE, CORMAN, RAFFERTY, BREWSTER AND BOSCOLA, JANUARY 12, 2011

  

  

REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, JANUARY 12, 2011  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the offense of

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carrying a false identification card.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 6310.3 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:

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§ 6310.3.  Carrying a false identification card.

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(f)  Confiscation.--

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(1)  Any person who meets all of the following may

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confiscate an identification card that has been presented for

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the purposes of obtaining liquor or malt or brewed beverages

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when there is a reasonable suspicion that a person has

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presented an identification card as described in subsection

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(a):

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(i)  is authorized to sell liquor or malt or brewed

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beverages under the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90,

 


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No.21), known as the Liquor Code; and

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(ii)  verifies the ages of purchasers of liquor or

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malt or brewed beverages by placing identification cards

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through an electronic scanner.

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(2)  The identification card confiscated under this

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subsection shall be submitted to law enforcement personnel 

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within 48 hours to make a determination of the validity of

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the identification card presented.

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

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