Bill Text: PA HB1426 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for definitions.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-03 - Referred to LIQUOR CONTROL [HB1426 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1426-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1716
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1426 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY CONKLIN, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, FABRIZIO, GODSHALL, HARKINS, HORNAMAN, JOSEPHS, KORTZ, MANN, MYERS, M. O'BRIEN, VITALI AND WAGNER, MAY 3, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, MAY 3, 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 definitions.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definition of "eligible entity" 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 June 25, 2010 (P.L.217, No.35), 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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"Eligible entity" shall mean a city of the third class, a
hospital, a church, a synagogue, a volunteer fire company, a
volunteer ambulance company, a volunteer rescue squad, a unit of
a nationally chartered club which has been issued a club liquor
license, a club in a city of the third class which has been
issued a club liquor license and which, as of December 31, 2002,
has been in existence for at least 100 years, a library, a
nationally accredited Pennsylvania nonprofit zoological
institution licensed by the United States Department of
Agriculture, a nonprofit agricultural association in existence
for at least ten years, a bona fide sportsmen's club in
existence for at least ten years, a nationally chartered
veterans' organization and any affiliated lodge or subdivision
of such organization, a fraternal benefit society that is
licensed to do business in this Commonwealth and any affiliated
lodge or subdivision of such fraternal benefit society, 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, borough or
in an incorporated town, an arts council, a nonprofit
corporation that operates an arts facility or museum in a city
of the third class in the county of the fourth class, a
nonprofit organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Public Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. §
501(c)(3)) whose purpose is to protect the architectural
heritage of boroughs or a township of the second class and which
has been recognized as such by a municipal resolution, a
nonprofit organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the
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Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Public Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. §
501(c)(3)) conducting a regatta in a city of the second class
with the permit to be used on State park grounds or conducting a
family-oriented celebration as part of Welcome America in a city
of the first class on property leased from that city for more
than fifty years, a nonprofit organization as defined under
section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26
U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) whose purpose is to raise funds for the
research and treatment of cystic fibrosis, a nonprofit
organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) whose purpose is to
educate the public on issues dealing with watershed
conservation, a nonprofit organization as defined under section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Public Law
99-514, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) whose purpose is to provide
equine assisted activities for children and adults with special
needs, a nonprofit economic development agency in a city of the
second class with the primary function to serve as an economic
generator for the greater southwestern Pennsylvania region by
attracting and supporting film, television and related media
industry projects and coordinating government and business
offices in support of a production, a county tourist promotion
agency as defined in section 3(1) of the act of April 28, 1961
(P.L.111, No.50), known as the "Tourist Promotion Law," and
located in a city of the third class in a county of the fourth
class or located in a township of the second class in a county
of the fifth class, a junior league in a third class county that
is a nonprofit organization as defined under section 501(c)(3)
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3))
that is comprised of women whose purpose is exclusively
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educational and charitable in promoting the volunteerism of
women and developing and participating in community projects and
that has been in existence for over seventy years, a nonprofit
organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 which is located in counties of the second
class A or of the third class and whose purpose is the education
and promotion of American history, a nonprofit organization as
defined under section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 which is located in a city of the third class in a county
of the third class and whose purpose is to support business and
industry, a brewery which has been issued a license to
manufacture malt or brewed beverages and has been in existence
for at least 100 years [or], a club recognized by Rotary
International which is located in a county of the fourth class
and whose purpose is to provide service to others, to promote
high ethical standards and to advance world understanding,
goodwill and peace through its fellowship of business,
professional and community leaders [or], a nonprofit
organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 (Public Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3))
which is located in a borough in a county of the third class and
whose purpose is to promote mushrooms while supporting local and
regional charities or a noncommercial educational public radio
or television station that is eligible for qualification under
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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