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Council’s public safety committee keeps petition to liquor board on downtown amplified-music exemption in committee for boundary review
Summary
The public safety committee discussed Resolution 20 of 2025 to petition the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to exempt a downtown area so the city can enforce its noise-control ordinance on amplified music; the committee kept the resolution in committee to allow staff and police to assemble updated licensee and boundary data.
The public safety committee discussed Resolution 20 of 2025, which would authorize submission of a petition to the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (LCB) to exempt a specified downtown area of Harrisburg from LCB regulations concerning amplified music heard off licensed premises and instead permit enforcement under the city’s noise-control ordinance (City Ordinance 3-343 as cited in the presentation).
Police presenters — Commissioner Thomas Carter and Captain Terry Wheeling of the Criminal Investigation Division — described the resolution and provided background on the ordinance’s history and enforcement data. The presenters said City Ordinance 3-343 was first adopted Nov. 9, 1999 (Ordinance 42 of 1999), amended in February 2007 (Ordinance 4 of 02/2007), and…
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