Bill Text: NY S07836 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Extends expiration of ticket scalping provisions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-14 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S07836 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-S07836-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7836
I N S E N A T E
May 14, 2010
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Introduced by Sen. C. JOHNSON -- (at request of the Governor) -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Investigations and Government Operations
AN ACT to amend chapter 704 of the laws of 1991, amending the arts and
cultural affairs law and chapter 912 of the laws of 1920 relating to
the regulation of boxing and wrestling relating to tickets to places
of entertainment, in relation to extending the expiration of the
provisions thereof
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 4 of chapter 704 of the laws of 1991, amending the
2 arts and cultural affairs law and chapter 912 of the laws of 1920 relat-
3 ing to the regulation of boxing and wrestling relating to tickets to
4 places of entertainment, as amended by chapter 68 of the laws of 2009,
5 is amended to read as follows:
6 S 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
7 have become a law, provided, chapter 61 of the laws of 2007 shall not
8 take effect with respect to the issuance of licenses or certificates
9 under this article by the secretary of state or department of state
10 until January 1, 2008 and regulation under this article by the commis-
11 sioners of licenses of the political subdivisions of the state shall
12 continue through December 31, 2007, and shall remain in full force and
13 effect only until and including May [15] 21, 2010 when such act shall be
14 repealed and when, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
15 provisions of article 25 of title G of the arts and cultural affairs
16 law, repealed by such act, shall be reinstituted. Provided, however, the
17 printing on tickets required pursuant to sections 25.07 and 25.08 of
18 article 25 of the arts and cultural affairs law, as added by this act,
19 shall not apply to tickets printed prior to enactment of such article so
20 long as notice of the higher maximum premium price and prohibition of
21 sales within one thousand five hundred feet from the physical structure
22 of the place of entertainment, where applicable, is prominently
23 displayed at the point of sale and at such place of entertainment.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 S 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of article 5 of the general
2 construction law, if this act shall take effect after May 15, 2010, the
3 provisions of article 25 of the arts and cultural affairs law are hereby
4 revived and shall continue in full force and effect as they existed on
5 May 15, 2010 through May 21, 2010, when upon such date such provisions
6 shall expire and be repealed.
7 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
8 if this act shall not have become a law on or before May 15, 2010 this
9 act shall be deemed to have been in full force and effect on and after
10 May 15, 2010.
