Title 18, CRIMES AND OFFENSES

A person is guilty of a summary offense if he sells gasoline in a glass container.

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree if he owns, manufactures, sells, transfers, uses or possesses any incendiary device or similar device or parts thereof, including but not limited to a "molotov cocktail." (b) Exception.--The provisions …

A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree if he sells or exchanges on the open market any goods, wares or merchandise prepared, wholly or in part, or manufactured by convicts or prisoners of other states, except convicts or prisoners on parole or probation.

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree if he publishes or prints in any newspaper, magazine, periodical, circular, letter, pamphlet, or in any other manner, or publishes by radio or television broadcasting, any advertisement or other notice…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree if he, being engaged in the business of financing the purchase of real or personal property or of lending money on the security of real or personal property, requires, as a condition precedent to financ…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree if he, being a manufacturer, broker, wholesaler, retailer or agent of any manufacturer, broker, wholesaler or retailer, offers any policy of insurance free of cost as an inducement to any person to purc…

(a) Assignments of claims.--It is lawful for a collection agency, for the purpose of collecting or enforcing the payment thereof, to take an assignment of any such claim from a creditor, if all of the following apply: (1) The assignment between the creditors and collection agency…

(a) Offense defined.--Any person engaged in the business of debt pooling shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (b) Exceptions.--Subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to: (1) Any person who is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania o…

(a) Offense defined.--A person commits the offense of buying or exchanging Federal SNAP benefit coupons, stamps, authorization cards or access devices if he, not being authorized to do so by the United States Department of Agriculture, buys or exchanges Federal SNAP benefit coupo…

(a) Offense defined.--A person commits the offense of fraudulent traffic in SNAP benefits if he, whether acting for himself or for another, directly or indirectly, furnishes or delivers to any person money, merchandise, or anything other than food, on or in exchange for a SNAP be…

A person is guilty of a summary offense if he, whether acting for himself or for another, directly or indirectly willfully makes any unauthorized disposition of any food commodity donated under any program of the Federal Government or if he, not being an authorized recipient ther…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree if he keeps, or causes to be kept, any bucket-shop, or assists in the keeping of any bucket-shop. (b) Corporate penalty.--If a corporation is convicted, its charter shall be forfeited by a proceeding in…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree if he transmits or communicates by telegraph, telephone, wireless, telegraphy, express, mail, or otherwise or if he receives, exhibits, or displays, in any manner, any statement or quotation of the pric…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree if he knowingly permits a bucket-shop, as defined in section 7316(e) of this title (relating to definition of bucket-shop) to be maintained or operated in any premises owned, leased, controlled, or oper…

(a) Status of contracts.--All contracts, agreements, trades, or transactions of the nature of a bucket-shop as defined in section 7316(e) of this title (relating to definition of bucket-shop), are hereby declared gambling, and criminal acts, and null and void. (b) Offense defined…

A person is guilty of a summary offense if he places or affixes or inserts, or causes to be placed or affixed or inserted, any advertisement, notice, circular, pamphlet, card, handbill, book, booklet, or other printed notice of any kind, on or in or to any newspaper, magazine, pe…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree if he requires as a condition for employment or continuation of employment that an employee or other individual shall take a polygraph test or any form of a mechanical or electrical lie detector test. …

A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree if he, being an officer or employee of any employer of labor, solicits, demands or receives, directly or indirectly, from any person any money or other valuable thing, for the purpose, actual or alleged, of either obtaining …

A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree if, being the proprietor, manager, or employee of a theatre, hotel, restaurant, or other place of public entertainment or amusement, he discriminates against any person wearing the uniform of the armed forces of the United …

(a) Definitions.--As used in this section: (1) "Assignment" means any specific written, recorded, pictorial, artistic, or other academic task that is intended for submission to any university, academy, school or other educational institution which is chartered, incorporated, lice…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a summary offense if he, being the proprietor, manager or employee of a theatre, hotel, restaurant or other place of public accommodation, entertainment or amusement, refuses, withholds or denies any person, who is using a service, guid…

(a) Offense defined.--A person commits a misdemeanor of the third degree if he discloses, except to authorized persons for official governmental purposes, any tax information that is: (1) designated as confidential by a statute or ordinance of a city of the second class; and (2) …

(a) Storage.--A person commits a summary offense if he stores or permits storage by others of liquor or malt or brewed beverages for the purpose of consumption between the hours of 2 a.m. and 8 a.m. on business premises owned, operated, leased or controlled by such person which a…

(a) Offense defined.--A person commits a misdemeanor of the third degree if that person operates an establishment commonly referred to as a bottle club in a municipality or part of a split municipality where the operation of such establishments has been disapproved by the voters …

(a) Offense defined.--No bottle club operator or servants, agents or employees of the same shall knowingly permit on premises used as a bottle club or in any place operated in connection therewith any lewd, immoral or improper entertainment. (b) Penalty for violation.--Any person…

2002 Repeal. Section 7330 was repealed December 16, 2002 (P.L.1953, No.226), effective in 60 days.

A person that operates without a license in violation of 7 Pa.C.S. § 6111 (relating to license requirements) commits a felony of the third degree. (July 8, 2008, P.L.796, No.56, eff. 120 days) 2008 Amendment. Act 56 added section 7331.

(a) Failure to meet operational requirements.--A tow truck operator or the operator of a towing storage facility commits an offense if the operator: (1) fails to maintain a physical street address accessible to the public during posted business hours; (2) operates a tow truck wit…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a summary offense if he does or performs any worldly employment or business whatsoever on Sunday (works of necessity, charity and wholesome recreation excepted). (b) Exception.--Subsection (a) of this section shall not prohibit: (1) The…

1979 Repeal. Section 7362 was repealed December 7, 1979 (P.L.487, No.103), effective in 60 days. The subject matter is now contained in section 7365 of this title. Constitutionality. Section 7362 was declared unconstitutional on October 5, 1978, by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvan…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a summary offense if he engages on Sunday in the business of selling, or sells or offers for sale, on such day, at retail, clothing and wearing apparel, clothing accessories, furniture, housewares, home, business or office furnishings, …

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a summary offense if he engages in the business of selling or otherwise dealing at retail in fresh meats, produce and groceries on Sunday. (b) Separate offenses.--Each separate sale, or offer to sell, shall constitute a separate offense…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a summary offense if he engages in the business of buying, selling, exchanging, trading, or otherwise dealing in new or used motor vehicles or trailers, on Sunday. (b) Repeated offense penalty.--A person who commits a second or any subs…