Pennsylvania Act 2007-5 — LIQUOR CODE - SPECIAL OCCASION PERMITS

Act text

Session of 2007

No. 2007-5

SB 650

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 special occasion permits.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 408.4(i) 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 9, 2002 (P.L.1653, No.212), is amended to read:

Section 408.4. Special Occasion Permits.--

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(i) Only one special occasion permit shall be issued to each eligible entity per calendar year. Each permit may only be used for six consecutive or nonconsecutive days; however, if the eligible entity is a museum operated by a nonprofit corporation in a city of the third class or township of the first class, a nonprofit corporation engaged in the performing arts in a city of the third class or in an incorporated town, a bona fide sportsmen's club in existence for at least ten years conducting a national golf championship or an arts council, then the special occasion permit may be used for six nonconsecutive or ten consecutive days.

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Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

APPROVED--The 5th day of June, A. D. 2007.

EDWARD G. RENDELL