47 Pa. Stat. § 4-405

Current through P.A. Acts 2023-32
Section 4-405 - License fees
(a) License fees for hotel and restaurant liquor licenses shall be graduated according to the population of the municipality as determined by the last preceding decennial census of the United States in which the hotel or restaurant is located, as prescribed in section 614-A of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L. 177, No. 175), known as "The Administrative Code of 1929."
(b) Every applicant for a club liquor license shall pay to the board a license fee, as prescribed in section 614-A of "The Administrative Code of 1929," except clubs to which catering licenses are issued, in which cases the license fees shall be the same as for hotels and restaurants located in the same municipality.
(c) All license fees authorized under this section shall be collected by the board for the use of the municipalities in which such fees were collected.
(d) Whenever any checks issued in payment of filing and/or license fees shall be returned to the board as dishonored, the board shall charge a fee of five dollars ($5.00) per hundred dollars, or fractional part thereof, plus all protest fees, to the maker of such check submitted to the board. Failure to make full payment or pay the face amount of the check in full and all charges thereon as herein required within ten days after demand has been made by the board upon the maker of the check, or upon notification to the board by the Department of Revenue or the Department of Labor and Industry of its objection, the license of such person shall immediately become invalid and shall remain invalid until payment and all charges are received by the board.
(e) Every application for a restaurant liquor license for a nonprimary pari-mutuel wagering location or a racetrack shall be accompanied by an applicant's fee of five thousand dollars ($5,000) for the first year of a licensing period. Thereafter, the nonprimary pari-mutuel wagering location or the racetrack shall be subject to the above stated fees for restaurant licenses for each year of a licensing period.

47 P.S. § 4-405

1951, April 12, P.L. 90, art. IV, § 405. Amended 1961, July 18, P.L. 790, No. 348, § 1. Reenacted 1987, June 29, P.L. 32, No. 14, § 26, effective 7/1/1987. Amended 1990, May 31, P.L. 224, No. 48, § 2, imd. effective; 1994, April 29, P.L. 212, No. 30, § 5, effective in 60 days; 1998, Dec. 21, P.L. 1202, No. 155, § 3, imd. effective.