PRINTER'S NO. 1193
No. 1039 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY O'CONNELL, ZELLER, ECKENSBERGER, ZWIKL, RITTER,
LAUGHLIN, BRADLEY, COLE AND GREEN, APRIL 16, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, APRIL 21, 1975
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 providing for veterans' organization licenses.
18 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
19 hereby enacts as follows:
20 Section 1. The act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known
21 as the "Liquor Code," is amended by adding a section to read:
22 Section 401.1. Veterans' Organizations.--(a) The board, upon
23 receipt of a liquor license application from any veterans'
24 organization in existence five (5) years prior to the effective
25 date of this act and affiliated with a nationally chartered
1 veterans' organization, shall issue a club liquor license
2 restricted to a veterans' organization without regard to any
3 existing license quota system.
4 (b) A veterans' organization as defined in subsection (a) of
5 this section shall have the right to purchase any club or
6 restaurant liquor license within the county where the
7 organization is located, and, upon application to the board have
8 the club or restaurant liquor license redesignated as a club
9 liquor license restricted to a veterans' organization.
10 (c) Any club liquor license restricted to a veterans'
11 organization shall be transferable only to another nationally
12 chartered veterans' organization within the county.
13 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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