{"id":168043,"date":"2026-04-16T23:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168043\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:37:09","slug":"zombie-licenses-pennsylvania-auctions-expired-liquor-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168043\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Zombie licenses’ | Pennsylvania auctions expired liquor licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA PUBLIC HEARING ON THE NEW ORDINANCES THAT\u2019S SET FOR APRIL 28TH. NEW TONIGHT. PENNSYLVANIA\u2019S LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD IS ALLOWING NEW BIDS FOR A FEW EXPIRED LIQUOR LICENSES, ALSO KNOWN AS ZOMBIE LICENSES. STARTING TODAY, LICENSES FROM TEN COUNTIES ARE UP FOR AUCTION, BUT BUYERS CAN TRANSFER THEM TO ANOTHER COUNTY FOR AN EXTRA FEE. EACH LICENSE HAS A $25,000 MINIMUM BID. THE AUCTION IS THE 15TH SINCE ACT 39 OF 2016, WHICH ALLOWED THE STATE T\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

‘Zombie licenses’ | Pennsylvania auctions expired liquor licenses<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 7:03 PM EDT Apr 16, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPennsylvania’s Liquor Control Board is auctioning expired liquor licenses, known as zombie licenses, from 10 counties starting Thursday. Buyers can transfer the licenses to another county for an additional fee.Each license has a minimum bid of $25,000. This auction is the 15th since Act 39 of 2016, which allowed the state to resell expired licenses that previously could not be reused.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania’s Liquor Control Board is auctioning expired liquor licenses, known as zombie licenses, from 10 counties starting Thursday. <\/p>\n

Buyers can transfer the licenses to another county for an additional fee.<\/p>\n

Each license has a minimum bid of $25,000. <\/p>\n

This auction is the 15th since Act 39 of 2016, which allowed the state to resell expired licenses that previously could not be reused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE NEW ORDINANCES THAT\u2019S SET FOR APRIL 28TH. NEW TONIGHT. PENNSYLVANIA\u2019S LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69442,42125,75665,75672,75667,75671,235,74918,51045,75673,28,75670,30,29,75666,85,3522,75669,75668],"class_list":{"0":"post-168043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-15th","9":"tag-act","10":"tag-act-39-of-2016","11":"tag-additional-fee","12":"tag-auctioning-expired-liquor-licenses","13":"tag-buyer","14":"tag-county","15":"tag-liquor-control-board","16":"tag-liquor-license","17":"tag-minimum-bid","18":"tag-pennsylvania","19":"tag-pennsylvania-auction","20":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","21":"tag-pennsylvania-news","22":"tag-pennsylvanias-liquor-control-board","23":"tag-state","24":"tag-thursday","25":"tag-zombie-license","26":"tag-zombie-licenses"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}