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2737INTRODUCED THEBY GENERALSTAATS, ASSEMBLYCAUSER, OFROTHMAN, PENNSYLVANIAYOUNGBLOOD, HOUSESTEPHENS, BILLDOWLING, SessionRADER, ofJAMES, PYLE, OTTEN, MALAGARI, EVERETT, MACKENZIE, SAINATO, GAYDOS, JOZWIAK, FARRY, IRVIN AND STRUZZI, JUNE 11, 2019 No.REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, JUNE 11, 2019 AN ACT Amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), entitled "An act relating to alcoholic liquors, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages;
INTRODUCED BY STAATS, CAUSER, ROTHMAN, YOUNGBLOOD, STEPHENS, DOWLING, RADER, JAMES, PYLE, OTTEN, MALAGARI, EVERETT, MACKENZIE, SAINATO, GAYDOS, JOZWIAK, FARRY, IRVIN, STRUZZI AND WHEELAND, JUNE 11, 2019 AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, OCTOBER 21, 2019 AN ACT Amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), entitled "An act relating to alcoholic liquors, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages;
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 dutiespersons ofengaged theor Pennsylvaniaemployed Liquortherein; Control Board;
providingnddefining the powers and 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;
* * * (9.2) For two years after the effective date of this clause, upon application to the board and payment of a fee of twenty- <-- five THIRTY thousand dollars ($25,000) ($30,000) by a hotel <-- licensee, the board shall convert a hotel license under clause (8) of this subsection for a hotel licensee that applied for an exemption under clause (9) or (9.1) of this subsection before January 1, 2019, to a restaurant license without regard to the quota restrictions set forth in subsection (a).
An application to transfer a restaurant license that was converted from a hotel license under this clause in accordance with section 404 within five years after the board received the application for the 20190HB1617PN2737restaurant license 20190HB1617PN2101 - 2 - restaurant license shall be subject to a fee of twenty-five per centum (25%) or twenty-five THIRTY thousand dollars ($25,000)($25,000), <-- ($30,000), whichever is greater, of the transactional cost for <-- the transfer of the restaurant license.
TO BE PAID BY THE SELLER <-- OF THE LICENSE.
AS USED IN THIS PARAGRAPH, THE TERM "TRANSACTIONAL COST" SHALL MEAN THE COST OF THE RESTAURANT LICENSE.
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