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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(a) Upon application of any restaurant, hotel, club, municipal golf course liquor licensee or manufacturer of malt or brewed beverages, and payment of the appropriate fee, the board may approve a secondary service area by extending the licensed premises to include one additional permanent structure with dimensions of at least one hundred seventy-five square feet, enclosed on three sides and having adequate seating. Such secondary service area must be located on property having a minimum area of one (1) acre, and must be on land which is immediate, abutting, adjacent or contiguous to the licensed premises with no intervening public thoroughfare; however, the original licensed premises and the secondary service area must be located on the same tract of land. The board shall have discretion to refuse the application for a secondary service area in the same manner it has discretion to refuse an application for transfer of the license to a new location as set forth in section 404. 1 There shall be no requirement that the secondary service area be physically connected to the original licensed premises. In addition, there shall be no requirement that the secondary service area be located in the same municipality as the original licensed premises, provided, however, that the board shall not approve a secondary service area in this case if that secondary service area is located in any municipality where the granting of liquor licenses has been prohibited as provided in this article. Notwithstanding 40 Pa. Code § 7.21, the licensee shall be permitted to store, serve, sell or dispense food, liquor and malt or brewed beverages at the board approved secondary service area.
(b) If the applicant is a manufacturer of malt or brewed beverages, the board may approve a secondary service area for use as a brewery pub pursuant to section 446, 2 notwithstanding any intervening public thoroughfare, so long as the proposed secondary service area is within one thousand feet of the licensed premises. Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, the licensed premises and the secondary service area may be located on different tracts of lands.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Pennsylvania Statutes Title 47 P.S. Liquor § 4-406.1. Secondary service area - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/pa/title-47-ps-liquor/pa-st-sect-47-4-406-1/
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