An Act amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, in distilleries, wineries, bonded warehouses, bailees for hire and transporters for hire, further providing for containers to be labeled.

PRINTER'S NO. 439
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 457
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY GIRAL, KHAN, HILL-EVANS, OTTEN, RABB, HOWARD,
KENYATTA, HADDOCK AND PARKER, FEBRUARY 3, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, FEBRUARY 3, 2025
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; 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," in
distilleries, wineries, bonded warehouses, bailees for hire
and transporters for hire, further providing for containers
to be labeled.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 510 of the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90,
No.21), known as the Liquor Code, is amended to read:
Section 510. Containers To Be Labeled.--All persons, except
as exempted by section five hundred two hereof, manufacturing,
producing, distilling, developing or using in the process of
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manufacture, denaturing, redistilling, recovering, rectifying,
blending, reusing, holding in bond, holding in storage as bailee
for hire, or transporting for hire of alcohol or liquor under
the provisions of this article, shall securely and permanently
attach to every container ready for shipment thereof as the same
is manufactured, produced, distilled, developed, denatured,
redistilled, recovered, rectified, blended, reused, a label
stating the name of the manufacturer, kind and quantity of
alcohol or liquor contained therein, and the date of its
manufacture, together with the number of the license authorizing
the manufacture thereof[,] and a conspicuous label with the
words: "WARNING: There is a direct link between alcohol and
fatal cancers," and all persons possessing such alcohol or
liquor in wholesale quantities shall securely keep and maintain
such [label] labels thereon.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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