Bill Text: NY A04612 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 4612 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting the resale of tickets issued at no charge.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-18 - print number 4612b [A04612 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04612-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4612--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 3, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Tourism,  Parks, Arts and Sports Development -- recommitted to the
          Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development in accordance
          with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered  reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee --
          again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered  reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee
        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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