HB4791ham004 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Angelo Saviano

Filed: 4/8/2008

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4791

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4791 on page 5, by inserting immediately below line 14 the following:

"Section 10. The Ticket Sale and Resale Act is amended by changing Section 1 as follows:

(720 ILCS 375/1) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 157.31)

Sec. 1. Sale of tickets other than at box office prohibited; exceptions.

(a) It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, owner, lessee, manager, trustee, or any of their employees or agents, owning, conducting, managing or operating any theater, circus, baseball park, place of public entertainment or amusement where tickets of admission are sold for any such places of amusement or public entertainment to sell or permit the sale, barter or exchange of such admission tickets at any other place than in the box office or on the premises of such theater, circus, baseball park, place of public entertainment or amusement, but nothing herein prevents such theater, circus, baseball park, place of public entertainment or amusement from placing any of its admission tickets for sale at any other place at the same price such admission tickets are sold by such theater, circus, baseball park or other place of public entertainment or amusement at its box office or on the premises of such places, at the same advertised price or printed rate thereof.

(b) Any term or condition of the original sale of a ticket to any theater, circus, baseball park, or place of public entertainment or amusement where tickets of admission are sold that purports to limit the terms or conditions of resale of the ticket (including but not limited to the resale price of the ticket) is unenforceable, null, and void if the resale transaction is carried out by any of the means set forth in subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e) of Section 1.5 of this Act. This subsection shall not apply to a term or condition of the original sale of a ticket to any theater, circus, baseball park, or place of public entertainment or amusement where tickets of admission are sold that purports to limit the terms or conditions of resale of a ticket specifically designated as seating in a special section for a person with a physical disability.

(c) An original ticket seller must post on a publicly available Internet website the following information in connection with the sale, allocation, or distribution of tickets to each event for which the seller is the original seller as soon as possible in conjunction with the original public sale:

(1) the number of tickets offered for sale to the general public at each price level;

(2) the number of tickets allocated or distributed to the original ticket seller or its agents at each price level;

(3) the number of tickets sold, allocated, or distributed to fan clubs at each price level;

(4) the number of tickets sold, allocated, or distributed to the promoter or performer or their agents at each price level; and

(5) the identity of the recipients of any tickets sold, allocated, or distributed to anyone not listed in paragraphs (1) through (4) of this subsection (c).

(Source: P.A. 94-20, eff. 6-14-05.)".