Bill Text: NJ S926 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits places of entertainment from contracting with only one ticket issuer under certain circumstances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-16 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee [S926 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-S926-Introduced.html

SENATE, No. 926

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JANUARY 16, 2018

 


 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JOSEPH P. CRYAN

District 20 (Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits places of entertainment from contracting with only one ticket issuer under certain circumstances.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act concerning places of entertainment and ticket issuers and supplementing and amending P.L.1983, c.135.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Section 1 of P.L.1983, c.135 (C.56:8-26) is amended to read as follows:

     1.    As used in this act:

     a.     "Director" means the director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety.

     b.    "Division" means the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety.

     c.     "Person" means corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals.

     d.    "Place of entertainment" means any privately or publicly owned and operated entertainment facility within this State, such as a theater, stadium, museum, arena, racetrack or other place where performances, concerts, exhibits, games or contests are held and for which an entry fee is charged.

     e.     "Ticket" means any piece of paper which indicates that the bearer has paid for entry or other evidence which permits entry to a place of entertainment.

     f.     "Ticket broker" means any person situated in and operating in this State who is involved in the business of reselling tickets of admission to places of entertainment and who charges a premium in excess of the price, plus taxes, printed on the tickets.  For the purposes of this act, the term "ticket broker" shall not include an individual not regularly engaged in the business of reselling tickets, who resells less than 30 tickets during any one-year period, and who obtained the tickets for his own use, or the use of his family, friends, or acquaintances.

     g.    "Resale" means a sale by a person other than the owner or operator of a place of entertainment or of the entertainment event or an agent of any such person.

     h.    "Resell" means to offer for resale or to consummate a resale.

     i.     "Digger" means a person temporarily hired for the purpose of securing tickets by intimidating a purchaser waiting in line to procure event tickets.

     j.     "Ticket issuer" means any person that makes tickets available directly or indirectly, at an initial sale or pre-sale, to the general public.

(cf: P.L.2008, c.55, s.1)

     2.    (New section)  If a place of entertainment makes tickets to an event at the place of entertainment available to the public through any ticket issuer, the place of entertainment shall not contract with only one ticket issuer to make tickets available to the public.  

 

     3.    This act shall take effect on the 90th day next following enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides that if a place of entertainment makes tickets to an event at the place of entertainment available to the public through any ticket issuer, the place of entertainment shall not contract with only one ticket issuer to make tickets available to the public.  The place of entertainment may only make tickets available to the public through ticket issuers if it contracts with more than a single ticket issuer to make the tickets available. 

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