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PRINTER'S NO. 319
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
344
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY N. NELSON, SANCHEZ, HILL-EVANS, FREEMAN, CIRESI,
SCHLOSSBERG, KINSEY, D. WILLIAMS, GUENST, GALLOWAY, ZABEL,
McNEILL, HOHENSTEIN, ISAACSON, WEBSTER, DRISCOLL,
PISCIOTTANO, SAINATO, LEE, INNAMORATO, GAYDOS, A. DAVIS AND
GLEIM, JANUARY 29, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, JANUARY 29, 2021
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), entitled "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," in
licenses and regulations and liquor, alcohol and malt and
brewed beverages, further providing for licensed places may
be closed during period of emergency.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 462 of the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90,
No.21), known as the Liquor Code, is amended to read:
Section 462. Licensed Places May Be Closed During Period of
Emergency.--(a) The board may, with the approval of the
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Governor[,
(a)]:
(1) Temporarily close all licensed places within any
municipality during any period of emergency proclaimed to be
such by the Governor.
[(b)] (2) Advance by one hour the hours prescribed in this
act as the hours during which liquor and malt or brewed
beverages may be sold in any municipality during such part of
the year when daylight saving time may be observed generally in
such municipality.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, in
addition to the authority specified in subsection (a), during
the proclamation of disaster emergency issued by the Governor on
March 6, 2020, published at 50 Pa.B. 1644 (March 21, 2020), and
any renewal of the state of disaster emergency, the following
shall apply:
(1) The board may issue an unlimited number of off-premises
catering permits to entities that qualify for the permits under
this act.
(2) No application fee shall be required from an entity
requesting a catering permit under this subsection.
(3) An application for a catering permit under this
subsection does not need to be submitted prior to March 1 of
that calendar year.
(4) The five-hour limit on catered events shall not apply to
a catering permit under this subsection, but all the other
requirements for catered events not specifically waived under
this subsection shall continue to apply.
(5) The authority of the board to issue permits under this
subsection and the authority to hold a catered event pursuant to
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a permit under this subsection shall expire upon the termination
or expiration of the state of disaster emergency under 35
Pa.C.S. ยง 7301(c) (relating to general authority of Governor).
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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