Pennsylvania Act 1965-118 — REGULATING SALE OF TICKETS FOR PASSAGE ABOARD CERTAIN VESSELS

Act text

AN ACT

Regulating the sale of tickets for passage aboard certain vessels, the advertising practices pertaining thereto, and providing penalties for violations.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. No person shall issue, sell or offer for sale in this Commonwealth in the regular course of business any ticket for passage aboard any vessel required by law to be registered in this country or in any other country which does not have clearly imprinted thereon the country of registry of such vessel.

Section 2. No person issuing, selling or offering to sell any ticket for passage aboard any vessel required to be so registered shall directly or indirectly cause to be placed before the public in this Commonwealth any advertising matter or information pertaining to passage or the availability of passage upon any such vessel, unless the advertising matter or information clearly indicates the country of registry of the vessel.

Section 3. Any person who wilfully violates any provision of this act, shall, upon summary conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100), or in default of the payment thereof, shall undergo imprisonment not exceeding thirty days.

Section 4. This act shall take effect immediately.