§ 181. Definitions.
§ 182. Tennis on Sunday.
§ 183. License.
§ 184. Hours for play.
§ 185. Construction.
The word"municipality" as used in this act, shall be considered to mean and include any city, borough, town, or township of this Commonwealth.
It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, association, or corporation to conduct, stage, manage, operate, or engage in the game of tennis, although a charge of admission thereto is made, and although labor or business is necessary to conduct, manage, operate, or stage the same, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, after the hour of one o'clock post meridian or before the hour of seven o'clock post meridian.
[Webmaster note: This section was suspended by 4 P.S. § 40.1.]
It shall and may be lawful, where admission is charged as aforesaid, for any municipality by ordinance to require that a license be first issued by the municipality before it shall be lawful for any person, copartnership, association, or corporation to conduct, stage, or operate any public exhibition of the game of tennis at which an admission entrance fee or other charge is made. And such municipality may impose a reasonable license fee upon any one who shall conduct, operate, manage, or stage a public exhibition of the game of tennis, not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25).
All license fees, collected under the provisions of any such ordinance, shall be paid into the treasury of the municipality.
Where by the provisions of existing law it is lawful to conduct, stage, and play any sport, other than tennis, on Sunday between the hours of two o'clock, post meridian and six o'clock post meridian, it shall hereafter be lawful to conduct, stage, and play such sports between the hours of one o'clock post meridian and seven o'clock post meridian; but only in a municipality wherein the electors shall have heretofore voted in favor of conducting, staging, and playing such sports between the hours of two o'clock post meridian and six o'clock post meridian, or wherein the electors shall hereafter vote in the manner provided by existing law in favor of conducting, staging, and playing of such sports on Sunday between the hours of one o'clock post meridian and seven o'clock post meridian.
Whenever in this act [§ 181-185] time is referred to, the same shall be construed to mean "eastern standard time," except during the period commencing with the last Sunday of April and ending with the last Sunday of September of each year, during which period such reference shall be construed to mean "eastern daylight saving time," in time in common use during such period.
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