THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY BOSCOLA, FONTANA, BREWSTER AND M. WHITE, JANUARY 19, 2011

REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, JANUARY 19, 2011  

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 license assignability and transfer.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 468(a)(1) 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 November 29, 2006

(P.L.1421, No.155), is amended to read:

Section 468.  Licenses Not Assignable; Transfers.--(a)  (1)

Licenses issued under this article may not be assigned. The

board, upon payment of the transfer filing fee, is hereby

authorized to transfer any license issued by it under the

provisions of this article from one person to another or from

one place to another, or both. [If] Except for restaurant liquor

and eating place retail dispenser licenses transferred under

section 461(b.4), if the license is a retail license, [then] the

new location must be within the same county as the existing

location [except for restaurant liquor and eating place retail

dispenser licenses transferred under section 461(b.4)] or, if

the municipality is located in more than one county, within the

same municipality as the existing location.

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