STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2003
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 18, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations
        AN ACT to amend the arts and cultural affairs law, in  relation  to  the
          resale of tickets issued at no charge
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The arts and cultural affairs law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new section 25.06 to read as follows:
     3    §  25.06. Resale of tickets issued at no charge.  It shall be unlawful
     4  for any person, firm, or corporation to resell or offer  to  resell  any
     5  ticket or other evidence of right of entry to any place of entertainment
     6  if the ticket was initially offered to the public at no charge.
     7    §  2. This act shall take effect on the forty-fifth day after it shall
     8  have become a law; provided, however, that section 25.06 of the arts and
     9  cultural affairs law, as added by section one of this act, shall survive
    10  the expiration and reversion of article 25 of such law  as  provided  in
    11  section 4 of chapter 704 of the laws of 1991, as amended.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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