In re the Question of Local Option for Granting of Malt & Brewed Beverage Wholesale Distributor's & Importing Distributor's

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County which granted leave to certain electors1 of the Borough of Sharon Hill to file additional signatures nunc pro tunc on their petition to place a local liquor referendum on the primary election ballot of May 15,1979.

The referendum, authorized by Section 472 of the Liquor Code,2 347 P.S. §4-472, permits municipal electorates to decide whether or not liquor licenses shall be granted to wholesale distributors of malt and brewed beverages within the municipality. On March 6,1979, the final day for…