The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Pennsylvania
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- Liquor Code; PLCB operational authority over the Commonwealth's retail liquor monopoly
- Issued
- 2020-03-16 Mar. 16, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-17 close of business (read as 2020-03-17)
- End
- Stores reopened in phases May-June 2020 (read as 2020-06-30)
- In force
- Mar. 17, 2020 to June 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureAlcohol and barsSupply chain
- Addressees
- Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores; licensees purchasing from them; consumers
- Functions reached
- SC alcohol supply chain for every restaurant, bar and hotel licensee (the Commonwealth is the sole wholesale source of wine and spirits)
- SF state retail closed
- BA
- Collection
- Pennsylvania PA
Enforcement
PLCB operational decision under the Liquor Code
Notes
The Commonwealth's own liquor monopoly closed every retail outlet, cutting licensees' wine and spirits supply for weeks; primary release not archived under a recoverable URL.
Retrieval noteWikipedia 'COVID-19 pandemic in Pennsylvania' chronology (read Sept. 26, 2026) and Husch Blackwell's Apr. 20 entry ('enabled liquor board curbside pickup').