18 Pa.C.S. § 7361 Worldly Employment Or Business

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-66
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 18 Pa.C.S. § 7361

(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 dressing of victuals in private families, bake-houses, lodginghouses, inns and other houses of entertainment for the use of sojourners, travellers or strangers.

(2) The sale of newspapers.

(3) Watermen from landing their passengers, or ferrymen from carrying over the water travellers.

(4) Work in connection with the rendering of service by a public utility as defined in the Public Utility Law.

(5) Persons removing with their families.

(6) The delivery of milk or the necessaries of life, before nine o'clock antemeridian, nor after five o'clock postmeridian.

(7) The production and performance of drama and civic light opera for an admission charge by nonprofit corporations in cities of the second class, between the hours of two o'clock postmeridian and 12 o'clock midnight.