PRINTER'S NO. 1725
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1405
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY HERSHEY, BERNSTINE, GLEIM, GROVE, JAMES, JOZWIAK,
KEEFER, KINSEY, MACKENZIE, MILLARD, NEILSON, OBERLANDER,
OWLETT, POLINCHOCK, RABB, ROTHMAN, SCHMITT AND ZIMMERMAN,
MAY 6, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MAY 6, 2019
AN ACT
Repealing the act of June 22, 1935 (P.L.449, No.188), entitled
"An act relating to certain sports on Sunday in cases where
an admission is charged; permitting certain sports on Sunday
for which an admission is charged during certain hours;
providing for the licensing of exhibitions thereof where an
admission charge is made; and changing the hours during which
certain sports may be conducted, staged, and played where the
electors are in favor of the same."
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of June 22, 1935 (P.L.449, No.188),
referred to as the Sunday Tennis Act, is repealed:
[AN ACT
Relating to certain sports on Sunday in cases where an admission
is charged; permitting certain sports on Sunday for which an
admission is charged during certain hours; providing for the
licensing of exhibitions thereof where an admission charge is
made; and changing the hours during which certain sports may
be conducted, staged, and played where the electors are in
favor of the same.
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Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the word "municipality,"
as used in this act, shall be considered to mean and include any
city, borough, town, or township of this Commonwealth.
Section 2. It shall be lawful for any person, partnership,
association, or corporation to conduct, stage, manage, operate,
or engage in the game of tennis, although a charge of admission
thereto is made, and although labor or business is necessary to
conduct, manage, operate, or stage the same, on the first day of
the week, commonly called Sunday, after the hour of one o'clock
postmeridian or before the hour of seven o'clock postmeridian.
Section 3. It shall and may be lawful, where admission is
charged as aforesaid, for any municipality by ordinance to
require that a license be first issued by the municipality
before it shall be lawful for any person, copartnership,
association, or corporation to conduct, stage, or operate any
public exhibition of the game of tennis at which an admission
entrance fee or other charge is made. And such municipality may
impose a reasonable license fee upon any one who shall conduct,
operate, manage, or stage a public exhibition of the game of
tennis, not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25).
All license fees, collected under the provisions of any such
ordinance, shall be paid into the treasury of the municipality.
Section 4. Where, by the provisions of existing law, it is
lawful to conduct, stage, and play any sport, other than tennis,
on Sunday between the hours of two o'clock postmeridian and six
o'clock postmeridian, it shall hereafter be lawful to conduct,
stage, and play such sports between the hours of one o'clock
postmeridian and seven o'clock postmeridian; but only in a
municipality wherein the electors have heretofore voted in favor
of conducting, staging, and playing such sports between the
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hours of two o'clock postmeridian and six o'clock postmeridian,
or wherein the electors shall hereafter vote in the manner
provided by existing law in favor of conducting, staging, and
playing of such sports on Sunday between the hours of one
o'clock postmeridian and seven o'clock postmeridian.
Section 5. Whenever in this act time is referred to, the
same shall be construed to mean "eastern standard time," except
during the period commencing with the last Sunday of April and
ending with the last Sunday of September of each year, during
which period such reference shall be construed to mean "eastern
daylight saving time," in those municipalities where daylight
saving time is the customary time in common use during such
period.
Section 6. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith
be and the same are hereby repealed.]
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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