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Committee advances bill removing city scales, scanners and amusement device licenses; seeks state enforcement details
Summary
Bill 250572 would remove local scales and scanners and amusement device licenses from the Philadelphia code, relying on Commonwealth and other existing permits; committee advanced the bill but members asked the administration to provide details about state inspection capacity and enforcement.
The Committee on Rules considered bill 250572, which would remove from the Philadelphia Code the city licenses for scales and scanners and for amusement devices while retaining the city’s amusement tax. Karen Fegley, acting director of the Department of Commerce, testified in support, describing the change as a code cleanup to remove redundant city licensing requirements that duplicate state or other city regulation.
Fegley said the Pennsylvania…
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