§ 7363. Selling certain personal property.

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(a)Offense defined.-- A person is guilty of a summary offense if he engages on Sunday in the business of selling, or sells or offers for sale, on such day, at retail, clothing and wearing apparel, clothing accessories, furniture, housewares, home, business or office furnishings, household, business or office appliances, hardware, tools, paints, building and lumber supply materials, jewelry, silverware, watches, clocks, luggage, musical instruments and recordings, or toys.

(b)Separate offenses.-- Each separate sale or offer to sell shall constitute a separate offense.

(c)Exceptions.--

(1)Subsection

(a)of this section shall not apply to novelties, souvenirs and antiques.

(2)No individual who by reason of his religious conviction observes a day other than Sunday as his day of rest and actually refrains from labor or secular business on that day shall be prohibited from selling on Sunday in a business establishment which is closed on such other day the articles specified in subsection

(a)of this section.

(d)Limitation of action.-- Information charging violations of this section shall be brought within 72 hours after the commission of the alleged offense and not thereafter.

(e)Repeated offense penalty.-- A person who commits a second or any subsequent offense within one year after conviction for the first offense shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not exceeding $200.

(f)Definitions.-- As used in this section the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this subsection:

"A day other than Sunday." Any consecutive 24 hour period.

"Antique." An item over 100 years old, or ethnographic objects made in traditional aboriginal styles and made at least 50 years prior to their sale.

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Constitutionality. Section 7363 was declared unconstitutional on October 5, 1978, by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in Kroger Co. v. O'Hara Township, 481 Pa. 101, 392 A.2d 266 (1978).

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