interpreting Section 471 of the Liquor Code, 47 P.S. §4-471, involving revocation
How later courts described this case
- interpreting Section 471 of the Liquor Code, 47 P.S. §4-471, involving revocation
- “A violation of the Liquor Code or its attendant laws and regulations places a liquor license in jeopardy on a basis of strict liability. . . . This is due to the legislative mandate in the Liquor Code.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
McDERMOTT, Justice,
concurring.
I cannot accept the majority’s dichotomous analysis of section 471 of the Liquor Code. 1 It has long been the law that a liquor licensee’s transgressions of the criminal law should be treated in the same manner as liquor law violations. See Sobel Liquor License Case, 211 Pa.Super. 129 , 235 A.2d 623 (1967); Dubin Liquor License Case, 210 Pa.Super. 346 , 234 A.2d 7 (1967). The General Assembly has had ample time and opportunity to change this construction of the statute, but has not done so. I see no reason for us to change it now. Therefore, I dissociate myself from the majority opinion and concur in the result only.
. Act of April 12, P.L. 90, art. IV § 471, as amended 47 P.S. § 4-471.