Full Text of HB4791 95th General Assembly
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Rep. Angelo Saviano
Filed: 4/8/2008
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4791
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4791 on page 5, by | 3 |
| inserting immediately below line 14 the following:
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| "Section 10. The Ticket Sale and Resale Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 1 as follows:
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| (720 ILCS 375/1) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 157.31)
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| Sec. 1. Sale of tickets other than at box office | 8 |
| prohibited; exceptions.
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| (a) It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, | 10 |
| owner, lessee,
manager, trustee, or any of their employees or | 11 |
| agents, owning, conducting,
managing or operating any theater, | 12 |
| circus, baseball park, place of public
entertainment or | 13 |
| amusement where tickets of admission are sold for any such
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| places of amusement or public entertainment to sell or permit | 15 |
| the sale,
barter or exchange of such admission tickets at any | 16 |
| other place than in the
box office or on the premises of such |
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| theater, circus, baseball park, place
of public entertainment | 2 |
| or amusement, but nothing herein prevents such
theater, circus, | 3 |
| baseball park, place of public entertainment or amusement
from | 4 |
| placing any of its admission tickets for sale at any other | 5 |
| place at
the same price such admission tickets are sold by such | 6 |
| theater, circus,
baseball park or other place of public | 7 |
| entertainment or amusement at its
box office or on the premises | 8 |
| of such places, at the same advertised price
or printed rate | 9 |
| thereof. | 10 |
| (b) Any term or condition of the original sale of a ticket | 11 |
| to any theater, circus, baseball park, or place of public | 12 |
| entertainment or amusement where tickets of admission are sold | 13 |
| that purports to limit the terms or conditions of resale of the | 14 |
| ticket (including but not limited to the resale price of the | 15 |
| ticket) is unenforceable, null, and void if the resale | 16 |
| transaction is carried out by any of the means set forth in | 17 |
| subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e) of Section 1.5 of this Act. | 18 |
| This subsection shall not apply to a term or condition of the | 19 |
| original sale of a ticket to any theater, circus, baseball | 20 |
| park, or place of public entertainment or amusement where | 21 |
| tickets of admission are sold that purports to limit the terms | 22 |
| or conditions of resale of a ticket specifically designated as | 23 |
| seating in a special section for a person with a physical | 24 |
| disability. | 25 |
| (c) An original ticket seller must post on a publicly | 26 |
| available
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| connection with the
sale, allocation, or distribution of | 2 |
| tickets to each event for
which the seller is the original | 3 |
| seller as soon as possible in
conjunction with the original | 4 |
| public sale: | 5 |
| (1) the number of tickets offered for sale to the | 6 |
| general
public at each price level; | 7 |
| (2) the number of tickets allocated or distributed to | 8 |
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original ticket seller or its agents at each price
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| level; | 10 |
| (3) the number of tickets sold, allocated, or | 11 |
| distributed
to fan clubs at each price level; | 12 |
| (4) the number of tickets sold, allocated, or | 13 |
| distributed
to the promoter or performer or their agents at | 14 |
| each
price level; and | 15 |
| (5) the identity of the recipients of any tickets sold,
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| allocated, or distributed to anyone not listed in
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| paragraphs (1) through (4) of this subsection (c).
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| (Source: P.A. 94-20, eff. 6-14-05.)".
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