(a) Offense defined.--No bottle club operator or servants, agents or employees of the same shall knowingly permit on premises used as a bottle club or in any place operated in connection therewith any lewd, immoral or improper entertainment.
(b) Penalty for violation.--Any person who violates subsection (a) commits a summary offense.
(c) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this subsection:
"Bottle club." An establishment operated for profit or pecuniary gain, which has a capacity for the assemblage of 20 or more persons and in which alcoholic liquors, alcohol or malt or brewed beverages are not legally sold but where alcoholic liquors, alcohol or malt or brewed beverages are either provided by the operator or agents or employees of the operator for consumption on the premises or are brought into or kept at the establishment by the patrons or persons assembling there for use and consumption. The term shall not include a licensee under the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, or any organization as set forth in section 6 of the act of December 19, 1990 (P.L.1200, No.202), known as the Solicitation of Funds for Charitable Purposes Act.
"Lewd, immoral or improper entertainment." Includes, but is not limited to, the following acts of conduct:
(1) Acts or simulated acts of sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, flagellation or excretion or any sexual acts which are prohibited by law.
(2) Any person being touched, caressed or fondled on the buttocks, anus, vulva, genitals or female breasts. This paragraph includes simulation.
(3) Scenes wherein a person displays or exposes to view any portion of the pubic area, anus, cleft of the buttocks, vulva, genitals or any portion of the female breast directly or laterally below the top of the areola. This paragraph includes simulation.
(4) Scenes wherein artificial devices or inanimate objects are employed to portray any of the prohibited activities described in paragraph (1), (2) or (3).
(5) Employment or use of any person in the sale and service of alcoholic beverages while such person is unclothed or in such attire, costume or clothing as to expose to view any portion of the anatomy described in paragraph (3).
(6) Employment or use of the services of a person while the person is unclothed or in such attire as to expose to view any portion of the anatomy described in paragraph (3).
(7) Permitting any person on the premises to touch, caress or fondle the buttocks, anus, vulva, genitals or female breasts of any other person.
(8) Permitting any person on the premises while such person is unclothed or in such attire as to expose to view any portion of the anatomy described in paragraph (3).
(9) Permitting any person to wear or use any device or covering exposed to view which simulates the human buttocks, anus, vulva, genitals or female breasts.
(10) Permitting any person to show, display or exhibit on the premises any film, still picture, electronic reproduction or any other visual reproduction or image the content of which primarily depicts graphic sexual acts as described in paragraphs (1) and (4).
(Feb. 23, 1996, P.L.17, No.7, eff. 60 days; Dec. 18, 1996, P.L.1074, No.160, eff. 60 days)
1996 Amendments. Act 7 added section 7329 and Act 160 amended subsec. (c).
Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 18 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES
Chapter 73 - Trade and Commerce
Section 7301 - Distribution of samples of medicine, dyes, etc
Section 7302 - Sale and labeling of solidified alcohol
Section 7303 - Sale or illegal use of certain solvents and noxious substances
Section 7304 - Illegal sale or use of certain fire extinguishers
Section 7305 - Sale of gasoline in glass container
Section 7306 - Incendiary devices
Section 7307 - Out-of-state convict made goods
Section 7308 - Unlawful advertising of insurance business
Section 7309 - Unlawful coercion in contracting insurance
Section 7310 - Furnishing free insurance as inducement for purchases
Section 7311 - Unlawful collection agency practices
Section 7314 - Fraudulent traffic in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits
Section 7315 - Unauthorized disposition of donated food commodities
Section 7316 - Keeping bucket-shop
Section 7317 - Accessories in conduct of bucket-shop
Section 7318 - Maintaining of premises in which bucket-shop operated
Section 7319 - Bucket-shop contracts
Section 7320 - Attaching advertisement without consent of publisher
Section 7321 - Lie detector tests
Section 7322 - Demanding property to secure employment
Section 7323 - Discrimination on account of uniform
Section 7324 - Unlawful sale of dissertations, theses and term papers
Section 7325 - Discrimination on account of service, guide or support dog or other aid animal
Section 7326 - Disclosure of confidential tax information
Section 7327 - Storage, consumption and sale of alcoholic beverages on unlicensed business premises
Section 7328 - Operation of certain establishments prohibited without local option
Section 7329 - Prohibition of certain types of entertainment on bottle club premises
Section 7330 - Internet child pornography (Repealed)
Section 7331 - Unlicensed mortgage loan business
Section 7361 - Worldly employment or business
Section 7362 - Trading in motor vehicles and trailers (Repealed)
Section 7363 - Selling certain personal property
Section 7364 - Selling or otherwise dealing in fresh meats, produce and groceries