Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board v. TLK, Inc. , 518 Pa. 500 ( 1988 )

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.

1 . Act of April 12, P.L. 90, art. IV § 471, as amended 47 P.S. § 4-471.