THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY MILLARD, BARRAR, EVERETT, GEIST, GRELL, KORTZ, PEIFER, PICKETT, REICHLEY, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, SONNEY, STEVENSON, J. TAYLOR AND YUDICHAK, MARCH 27, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, MARCH 27, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), entitled, as

reenacted, "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,"

further providing for definitions.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  The definition of "performing arts facilities" in

section 102 of the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known

as the Liquor Code, reenacted and amended June 29, 1987 (P.L.32,

No.14) and amended December 20, 2000 (P.L.992, No.141), is

amended to read:

Section 102.  Definitions.--The following words or phrases,

unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the

meanings ascribed to them in this section:

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"Performing arts facilities" shall mean those halls or

theaters in which live musical, concert, dance, ballet and

legitimate play book-length productions are performed.

Performing arts facilities shall not mean those halls or

theaters in which burlesque shows or reviews are performed. If

the operator of the performing arts facility is a nonprofit

entity, the facility must have seating for at least five hundred

(500) people; if the operator of the facility is a non-profit

entity in an incorporated town designated as such by the act of

March 4, 1870 (P.L.343, No.335), entitled "An act to define the

limits and to organize the town of Bloomsburg," the facility

must have seating for two hundred and fifty (250) people; 

otherwise, the facility must have seating for at least twenty-

five hundred (2,500) people.

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