Bill Text: NY A03195 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes sporting events within the definition of places of public entertainment and amusement for purposes of wrongful refusal of admission to and ejection from places of public entertainment and amusement.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A03195 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03195-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3195

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. SIMONE, WALLACE, CARROLL, L. ROSENTHAL, E. BROWN,
          K. BROWN,  BORES,  GUNTHER,  GLICK  --  read  once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to including  sporting
          events  within  the  definition  of places of public entertainment and
          amusement for  purposes  of  wrongful  refusal  of  admission  to  and
          ejection from places of public entertainment and amusement

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 40-b of the civil rights law, as added  by  chapter
     2  893 of the laws of 1941,  is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  40-b.  Wrongful refusal of admission to and ejection from places of
     4  public entertainment and amusement. No person,  agency,  bureau,  corpo-
     5  ration  or  association,  being  the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager,
     6  superintendent, agent or employee of any place of  public  entertainment
     7  and amusement as hereinafter defined shall refuse to admit to any public
     8  performance  held  at  such  place any person over the age of twenty-one
     9  years who presents a ticket of admission to the performance a reasonable
    10  time before the commencement thereof,  or  shall  eject  or  demand  the
    11  departure  of  any  such person from such place during the course of the
    12  performance, whether or not  accompanied  by  an  offer  to  refund  the
    13  purchase  price  or  value  of the ticket of admission presented by such
    14  person; but nothing in this section  contained  shall  be  construed  to
    15  prevent  the refusal of admission to or the ejection of any person whose
    16  conduct or speech thereat or therein is abusive or offensive or  of  any
    17  person engaged in any activity which may tend to a breach of the peace.
    18    The places of public entertainment and amusement within the meaning of
    19  this  section  shall  be  legitimate theatres, burlesque theatres, music
    20  halls, opera houses, concert halls, sporting events and circuses.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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