PRINTER'S NO. 2975
No. 2230 Session of 1990
INTRODUCED BY SCRIMENTI, BRANDT, DeWEESE, TRICH, DOMBROWSKI,
CAPPABIANCA, LASHINGER, PRESSMANN, MAINE, PISTELLA, PETRONE,
BORTNER, ITKIN, BROUJOS, VAN HORNE AND VEON, JANUARY 24, 1990
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, JANUARY 24, 1990
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 limited winery licenses.
18 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
19 hereby enacts as follows:
20 Section 1. Section 505.2 of the act of April 12, 1951
21 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, reenacted and amended
22 June 29, 1987 (P.L.32, No.14), is amended to read:
23 Section 505.2. Limited Wineries.--Holders of a limited
24 winery license may:
25 (1) Produce wines and wine coolers only from fruits grown in
1 Pennsylvania in an amount not to exceed two hundred thousand
2 (200,000) gallons per year.
3 (2) Sell, between the hours of nine o'clock ante-meridian
4 and ten o'clock post-meridian seven days per week, wine and wine
5 coolers produced by the limited winery or purchased in bulk in
6 bond or in bottles in bond from another Pennsylvania limited
7 winery, for consumption on the licensed premises and in sealed
8 containers for consumption off the licensed premises, under such
9 conditions and regulations as the board may enforce, to the
10 board, to individuals and to hotel, restaurant, club and public
11 service liquor licensees, and to Pennsylvania winery licensees:
12 Provided, That a limited winery shall not, in any calendar year,
13 purchase wine produced by other limited wineries in an amount in
14 excess of fifty per centum of the wine produced by the
15 purchasing limited winery in the preceding calendar year.
16 (2.1) Offer products under clause (2) as samples, with or
17 without charge.
18 (3) Separately or in conjunction with other limited
19 wineries, sell wine and wine coolers produced by the limited
20 winery [on] at no more than five board-approved locations other
21 than the licensed premises, with no bottling or production
22 requirement at those additional board-approved locations and
23 under such conditions and regulations as the board may enforce,
24 to the board, to individuals and to hotel, restaurant, club and
25 public service liquor licensees.
26 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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