{"id":"PA-105","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Pennsylvania","state":"PA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (Office of Chief Counsel)","authority":"Liquor Code § 417 as added by Act 21 of 2020 (PA-075)","instrument":"PLCB: What Licensees Should Know About Act 21 of 2020 (FAQ)","title":"What Licensees Should Know About Act 21 of 2020","dateIssued":"2020-05-21","effective":"2020-05-21","end":"With Act 21 of 2020\u0027s authority (end of the disaster emergency)","startDate":"2020-05-21","endDate":"2021-06-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["ALC"],"addressees":["hotel and restaurant liquor licensees"],"clause":"On May 21, 2020, the Governor signed HB 327 (PN 3678) into law. Now known as Act 21 of 2020, it made two temporary but significant changes to the way liquor is distributed in Pennsylvania. These changes allow certain retail licensees to sell prepared beverages and mixed drinks to go to non-licensees and allow certain retail licensees to sell liquor to each other.... A \u0027prepared beverage and mixed drink\u0027 is defined as a sealed container holding between 4 and 64 fluid ounces of spirits (liquor) and mixer that have been combined at the licensed premises.... Only hotel and restaurant license holders who have lost at least 25% of their average monthly [total sales during the disaster emergency may sell mixed drinks to go]... 9. How does a licensee establish that it meets the 25% threshold?... a licensee must show that it has lost more than 25% of its average monthly [sales]...","enforcement":"Liquor Code; PLCB; Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement","functions":["BA","TO","CB"],"notes":"The alcoholic-beverage regulator\u0027s own implementing instrument; the PLCB\u0027s Mar. 17, 2020 closure of all Fine Wine \u0026 Good Spirits stores is PA-117 (secondary).","sourceUrl":"https://www.lcb.pa.gov/Legal/Documents/Act%2021%20of%202020%20PLCB%20FAQs.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200601000000/https://www.lcb.pa.gov/Legal/Documents/Act%2021%20of%202020%20PLCB%20FAQs.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":331503,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"PA","url":"/library/PA-105","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/PA-105","citation":"Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (Office of Chief Counsel), PLCB: What Licensees Should Know About Act 21 of 2020 (FAQ) (May 21, 2020) (Ex. PA-105)","stateName":"Pennsylvania","related":["PA-117","DUT-PA-018","PA-075"]}