Pennsylvania Unconsolidated Statutes|Act 43 - SUNDAY TENNIS ACT - REPEALED

                                                
Session of 2020

No. 2020-43


HB 1405


AN ACT


Repealing the act of June 22, 1935 (P.L.449, No.188), entitled "An act relating to
            certain sports on Sunday in cases where an admission is charged; permitting certain
            sports on Sunday for which an admission is charged during certain hours; providing
            for the licensing of exhibitions thereof where an admission charge is made; and changing
            the hours during which certain sports may be conducted, staged, and played where the
            electors are in favor of the same."
         


The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:


Section 1.  The act of June 22, 1935 (P.L.449, No.188), referred to as the Sunday Tennis Act,
            is repealed:
         

[AN ACT

Relating to certain sports on Sunday in cases where an admission is charged; permitting
            certain sports on Sunday for which an admission is charged during certain hours; providing
            for the licensing of exhibitions thereof where an admission charge is made; and changing
            the hours during which certain sports may be conducted, staged, and played where the
            electors are in favor of the same.
         

Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the word "municipality," as used in this act, shall be considered
            to mean and include any city, borough, town, or township of this Commonwealth.
         

Section 2.  It shall be lawful for any person, partnership, association, or corporation to conduct,
            stage, manage, operate, or engage in the game of tennis, although a charge of admission
            thereto is made, and although labor or business is necessary to conduct, manage, operate,
            or stage the same, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, after the
            hour of one o'clock postmeridian or before the hour of seven o'clock postmeridian.
         

Section 3.  It shall and may be lawful, where admission is charged as aforesaid, for any municipality
            by ordinance to require that a license be first issued by the municipality before
            it shall be lawful for any person, copartnership, association, or corporation to conduct,
            stage, or operate any public exhibition of the game of tennis at which an admission
            entrance fee or other charge is made. And such municipality may impose a reasonable
            license fee upon any one who shall conduct, operate, manage, or stage a public exhibition
            of the game of tennis, not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25).
         

All license fees, collected under the provisions of any such ordinance, shall be paid
            into the treasury of the municipality.
         

Section 4.  Where, by the provisions of existing law, it is lawful to conduct, stage, and play
            any sport, other than tennis, on Sunday between the hours of two o'clock postmeridian
            and six o'clock postmeridian, it shall hereafter be lawful to conduct, stage, and
            play such sports between the hours of one o'clock postmeridian and seven o'clock postmeridian;
            but only in a municipality wherein the electors have heretofore voted in favor of
            conducting, staging, and playing such sports between the hours of two o'clock postmeridian
            and six o'clock postmeridian, or wherein the electors shall hereafter vote in the
            manner provided by existing law in favor of conducting, staging, and playing of such
            sports on Sunday between the hours of one o'clock postmeridian and seven o'clock postmeridian.
         

Section 5.  Whenever in this act time is referred to, the same shall be construed to mean "eastern
            standard time," except during the period commencing with the last Sunday of April
            and ending with the last Sunday of September of each year, during which period such
            reference shall be construed to mean "eastern daylight saving time," in those municipalities
            where daylight saving time is the customary time in common use during such period.
         

Section 6.  All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.]

Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.


APPROVED--The 1st day of July, A.D. 2020.


TOM WOLF