Bill Text: PA SB669 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Further providing for sales by Pennsylvania Liquor Stores.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-20 - Referred to LAW AND JUSTICE [SB669 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-SB669-Introduced.html

  

 

    

PRINTER'S NO.  732

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

SENATE BILL

 

No.

669

Session of

2009

  

  

INTRODUCED BY LOGAN, ORIE, FONTANA, ERICKSON, ALLOWAY, RAFFERTY, WONDERLING, MUSTO, O'PAKE, EARLL, PIPPY AND FERLO, MARCH 20, 2009

  

  

REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, MARCH 20, 2009  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), entitled, as

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reenacted, "An act relating to alcoholic liquors, alcohol and

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malt and brewed beverages; amending, revising, consolidating

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and changing the laws relating thereto; regulating and

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restricting the manufacture, purchase, sale, possession,

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consumption, importation, transportation, furnishing, holding

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in bond, holding in storage, traffic in and use of alcoholic

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liquors, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages and the

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persons engaged or employed therein; defining the powers and

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duties of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board; providing

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for the establishment and operation of State liquor stores,

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for the payment of certain license fees to the respective

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municipalities and townships, for the abatement of certain

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nuisances and, in certain cases, for search and seizure

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without warrant; prescribing penalties and forfeitures;

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providing for local option, and repealing existing laws,"

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further providing for sales by Pennsylvania Liquor Stores.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 305(b) of the act of April 12, 1951

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(P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, reenacted and amended

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June 29, 1987 (P.L.32, No.14) and amended July 6, 2005 (P.L.135,

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No.39), is amended to read:

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Section 305.  Sales by Pennsylvania Liquor Stores.--* * *

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(b)  Every Pennsylvania Liquor Store shall sell liquors at

 


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wholesale to hotels, restaurants, clubs, and railroad, pullman

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and steamship companies licensed under this act; and, under the

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regulations of the board, to pharmacists duly licensed and

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registered under the laws of the Commonwealth, and to

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manufacturing pharmacists, and to reputable hospitals approved

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by the board, or chemists. Sales to licensees shall be made at a

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price that includes a discount of [ten] sixteen per centum from

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the retail price. The board may sell to registered pharmacists

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only such liquors as conform to the Pharmacopoeia of the United

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States, the National Formulary, or the American Homeopathic

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Pharmacopoeia. The board may sell at special prices under the

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regulations of the board, to United States Armed Forces

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facilities which are located on United States Armed Forces

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installations and are conducted pursuant to the authority and

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regulations of the United States Armed Forces. All other sales

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by such stores shall be at retail. A person entitled to purchase

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liquor at wholesale prices may purchase the liquor at any

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Pennsylvania Liquor Store upon tendering cash, check or credit

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card for the full amount of the purchase. For this purpose, the

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board shall issue a discount card to each licensee identifying

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such licensee as a person authorized to purchase liquor at

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wholesale prices. Such discount card shall be retained by the

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licensee. The board may contract through the Commonwealth

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bidding process for delivery to wholesale licensees at the

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expense of the licensee receiving the delivery.

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

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