New York Arts and Cultural Affairs Law Article 25 - TICKETS TO PLACES OF ENTERTAINMENT

  • 25.01 - Legislative Findings.
    * The legislature finds and declares that transactions involving tickets for admission to places of entertainment are a matter of public interest and subject to...
  • 25.03 - Definitions.
    * As used in this article the term: 1. "Entertainment" means all forms of entertainment including, but not limited to, theatrical or operatic performances, concerts,...
  • 25.05 - Ticket Speculators.
    * Any person who: 1. Conducts on or in any street in a city or in the county of Nassau the business of selling or...
  • 25.07 - Ticket Prices.
    * 1. Every operator of a place of entertainment shall, if a price be charged for admission thereto, print or endorse on the face of...
  • 25.08 - Additional Printing on Tickets.
    * Every operator of a place of entertainment having a permanent seating capacity in excess of five thousand persons shall, if a price be charged...
  • 25.09 - Ticket Speculators.
    * 1. Any person who in violation of section 25.13 of this article unlawfully resells or offers to resell or solicits the purchase of any...
  • 25.11 - Resales of Tickets Within Buffer Zone.
    1. No person, firm, corporation or not-for-profit organization, whether or not domiciled, licensed or registered within the state, shall resell, offer to resell or solicit...
  • 25.13 - Licensing of Ticket Resellers.
    * 1. No person, firm or corporation shall resell or engage in the business of reselling any tickets to a place of entertainment or operate...
  • 25.15 - Bond.
    * The secretary of state shall require the applicant for a license to file with the application therefor a bond in due form to the...
  • 25.17 - Supervision and Regulation.
    * The secretary of state shall have power, upon complaint of any person or on his or her own initiative, to investigate the business, business...
  • 25.19 - Posting of License or Certificate.
    * Immediately upon the receipt of the license or certificate issued pursuant to this article by the secretary of state, the licensee named therein shall...
  • 25.21 - Change of Office Location.
    * In the event of a change in the location of the premises covered by license or certificate issued under this article, the department of...
  • 25.23 - Posting of Price Lists; Information to Purchaser.
    * In every principal office or branch office, bureau, agency or sub-agency of any licensee under this article, there shall be conspicuously posted and at...
  • 25.24 - Ticket Purchasing Software.
    1. The term " ticket purchasing software" shall mean, any machine, device, computer program or computer software that, on its own or with human assistance,...
  • 25.25 - Records of Purchases and Sales.
    * 1. Every licensee shall at all times keep full and accurate sets of records showing: (a) the prices at which all tickets have been...
  • 25.27 - Commissions to Employees of Places of Entertainment.
    * No licensee, other person or entity, whether or not domiciled, licensed or registered within the state, shall pay to any officer or employee of...
  • 25.29 - Unlawful Charges in Connection With Tickets.
    * 1. No operator of any place of entertainment, or his or her agent, representative, employee or licensee shall, if a price be charged for...
  • 25.30 - Operator Prohibitions.
    * 1. A ticket is a license, issued by the operator of a place of entertainment, for admission to the place of entertainment at the...
  • 25.31 - Suspension or Revocation of Licenses.
    * 1. Powers of department of state. The department of state may deny an application or may revoke or suspend a license issued pursuant to...
  • 25.33 - Private Right of Action.
    * Notwithstanding any right of action granted to any governmental body pursuant to this chapter, any person who has been injured by reason of a...
  • 25.35 - Criminal Penalties.
    * 1. (a) Any person, firm, corporation or other entity, whether or not domiciled, licensed or registered within the state, which is convicted of violating...

Last modified: February 3, 2019