PRINTER'S NO. 2043
No. 1641 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY BELARDI, BATTISTO, CAWLEY, JAROLIN, SURRA, MELIO,
MUNDY, WALKO, STABACK, CURRY, STURLA, COY, ROBINSON, OLASZ,
TRELLO, C. WILLIAMS, WOJNAROSKI, RAMOS, STEELMAN, YOUNGBLOOD,
SHANER AND JAMES, JUNE 11, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, JUNE 11, 1997
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 the disposition of moneys in The State
18 Stores Fund; and making editorial changes.
19 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
20 hereby enacts as follows:
21 Section 1. Section 802(f) of the act of April 12, 1951
22 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, reenacted and amended
23 June 29, 1987 (P.L.32, No.14) and added April 29, 1994 (P.L.212,
24 No.30), is amended to read:
25 Section 802. Moneys Paid Into The State Stores Fund for Use
1 of the Commonwealth.--* * *
2 (f) Any moneys in [the] The State Stores Fund, from time to
3 time, which may not be required for any of the purposes
4 specified in this act or in the act of December 20, 1933
5 (Sp.Sess., P.L.89, No.15), entitled "An act appropriating the
6 moneys in The State Stores Fund," shall be paid over into the
7 General Fund and shall be available solely for the payment of
8 appropriations made from the General Fund for basic education.
9 The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, with the approval of the
10 Governor, shall, from time to time, fix the amount of money
11 which may be so paid over into the General Fund and by its
12 requisition shall direct the Department of the Auditor General
13 and the Treasury Department to transfer such moneys from [the]
14 The State Stores Fund to the General Fund. The Pennsylvania
15 Liquor Control Board shall, immediately upon voting to pay over
16 any moneys from [the] The State Stores Fund to the General Fund,
17 notify the chairman and minority chairman of the Appropriations
18 Committee of the Senate and the chairman and minority chairman
19 of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives
20 of such transfer of moneys.
21 * * *
22 Section 2. This act shall apply to any transfers made on or
23 after April 15, 1997.
24 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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