PRINTER'S NO. 632
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
637
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY RAFFERTY, VANCE AND BOSCOLA, MARCH 13, 2015
REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, MARCH 13, 2015
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," in
preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions;
and, in licenses and regulations, liquor, alcohol and malt
and brewed beverages, further providing for malt and brewed
beverages manufacturers', distributors' and importing
distributors' licenses, for malt and brewed beverages
alternating brewers' licenses, for distributors' and
importing distributors' restrictions on sales, storage, etc.,
for breweries and for unlawful acts relative to malt or
brewed beverages and licensees.
This act shall be construed as an enactment of the General
Assembly's support for the 3-tier system for alcoholic beverages
production, subject to certain rights of a manufacturer,
distribution and sale that, through uniform Statewide
regulation, provides this Commonwealth regulatory authority over
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