Section 2. Penalty for Unlawful Baseball and Football on Sunday.--It shall be unlawful for any person, copartnership, association or corporation to conduct, stage or engage in any baseball or football game, regardless whether a charge or admission thereto is made or whether labor or business is necessary to conduct, manage, stage or operate the same, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, before the hour of two o'clock post meridian or after the hour of six o'clock post meridian.
It shall be unlawful for any person, copartnership, association or corporation to conduct, stage or engage in any baseball or football game, regardless whether a charge or an admission thereto or incidental thereto is made or whether labor or business is necessary to conduct, manage, stage or operate the same, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, between the hours of two o'clock post meridian and six o'clock post meridian, unless the voters in the municipality have first voted in favor of baseball and football on Sunday as hereinafter provided, and unless the person, copartnership, association or corporation, proposing to conduct or stage any such baseball or football game to which an admission charge is made or is incidental, shall first have secured from the proper municipal authority of the municipality a license authorizing him, her, or it to conduct or stage such baseball or football game between said hours on Sunday.
Any person, copartnership, association or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding ten dollars ($10), and, in default of the payment of such fine and costs of prosecution, such person, or any member or agent of any copartnership or association, or any officer or agent of any corporation, responsible for such violation, shall be imprisoned for a period of not more than five days.
Compiler's Note: Section 1 of Act 192 of 1959 provided that whenever in any city of the first, second, second class A, or third class, or township of the first class, a baseball game is being conducted under the provisions of the act of April 25, 1933 (P.L.74), entitled "An act relating to baseball and football on Sunday; prohibiting baseball and football on Sunday during certain hours, and also during certain other hours unless the electors of a municipality are in favor of the same and, in certain cases, a license has first been secured from the municipal authorities; providing for referendums to ascertain the will of the electors, and for the enactment and repeal of licensing ordinances and resolutions in accordance therewith; providing penalties; and repealing inconsistent laws," and the game has not been played to completion before the hour of five o'clock post meridian, such game may be completed notwithstanding the provisions of any law of the Commonwealth to the contrary.