Bill Text: NY S06280 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to requiring the operator or the promoter to determine whether a ticket for sale has a physical seat location, or if the ticket requires the purchaser to stand for the duration of the performance, and requires the disclosure of such information; provides every sale or resale of such ticket shall also include such disclosure.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S06280 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S06280-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6280--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the arts and cultural affairs law, in relation to disclosing whether a ticket for sale has a physical seat location or is for standing or general admission The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 25.13 of the arts and cultural 2 affairs law, as renumbered by chapter 68 of the laws of 2009, is renum- 3 bered subdivision 5 and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows: 4 4. The operator or the promoter shall determine whether a ticket for 5 sale has a physical seat location, or if the ticket requires the 6 purchaser to stand for the duration of the performance, and shall 7 disclose such information. Every sale or resale of such ticket shall 8 include a disclosure that a ticket is standing or does not have a phys- 9 ical seat location. Any person, firm, corporation or other entity who 10 violates the provisions of this subdivision shall be subject to a civil 11 penalty in an amount of no less than five hundred dollars and not more 12 than one thousand five hundred dollars for each such violation and shall 13 forfeit all profits made from the sale or resale of such tickets. Addi- 14 tionally, any person, firm, corporation or other entity who violates the 15 provisions of this subdivision shall refund the purchaser the full price 16 paid by the purchaser for the ticket. 17 § 2. Section 25.13 of the arts and cultural affairs law, as added by 18 chapter 876 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows: 19 § 25.13. Printing price on ticket. Every person, firm or corporation 20 who owns, operates or controls a theatre, place of amusement or enter- 21 tainment, or other place where public exhibitions, games, contests or 22 performances are held shall, if a price be charged for admission there- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09108-05-7S. 6280--A 2 1 to, print on the face of each such ticket or other evidence of the right 2 of entry the price charged therefor by such person, firm or corporation. 3 Such person, firm or corporation shall likewise be required to print or 4 endorse thereon the maximum premium (not to exceed two dollars, plus 5 lawful taxes), at which such ticket or other evidence of the right of 6 entry may be resold or offered for resale. It shall be unlawful for any 7 person, firm or corporation to resell or offer to resell such ticket or 8 other evidence of the right of entry at any premium or price in excess 9 of such maximum premium printed or endorsed thereon, plus lawful taxes, 10 or so that the ultimate price to the purchaser of such ticket shall 11 exceed a sum in excess of two dollars over and above the original price 12 charged for admission as printed on the face of each such ticket or 13 other evidence of the right of entry, plus lawful taxes. The operator or 14 the promoter shall determine whether a ticket for sale has a physical 15 seat location, or if the ticket requires the purchaser to stand for the 16 duration of the performance, and shall disclose such information. Every 17 sale or resale of such ticket shall include a disclosure that a ticket 18 is standing or does not have a physical seat location. Any person, 19 firm, corporation or other entity who violates the provisions of this 20 section shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount of no less than 21 five hundred dollars and not more than one thousand five hundred dollars 22 for each such violation and shall forfeit all profits made from the sale 23 or resale of such tickets. Additionally, any person, firm, corporation 24 or other entity who violates the provisions of this section shall refund 25 the purchaser the full price paid by the purchaser for the ticket. 26 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 27 the amendments to section 25.13 of the arts and cultural affairs law 28 made by section one of this act shall be subject to the expiration and 29 reversion of such section pursuant to section 4 of chapter 704 of the 30 laws of 1991, as amended, when upon such date the provisions of section 31 two of this act shall take effect.