BASKIN, BRISPORT, BROUK, FAHY, FERNANDEZ, GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES, HINCHEY, KRUEGER, LIU, MAY, MYRIE,
PARKER, RIVERA, RYAN C, RYAN S, SANDERS, SEPULVEDA
MLTSPNSR
Amd §§25.03, 25.13, 25.19, 25.07, 25.10, 25.29 & 25.30, add §25.04, Arts & Cul L; amd §4, Chap 704 of 1991;
amd §11, Chap 151 of 2010
Enacts into law components of legislation that relate to live event ticket sales; establishes an annual professional reseller renewal fee; requires professional ticket resellers to provide their New York state ticket reseller license number as a condition of utilizing an online resale marketplace to resell tickets (Part A); provides criteria for when a purchaser may obtain a full refund of the amount paid for a ticket (Part B); relates to resale requirements for tickets; requires that if a licensee or other ticket reseller doesn't have possession of the ticket, then they shall have a written contract to obtain the offered ticket at a certain price from a person or entity in possession of the ticket or from a person or entity who has a contractual right to obtain such ticket, and tickets to the event have been placed on sale by the venue or entity hosting the event or its authorized agent before the licensee or reseller can advertise the sale of the tickets (Part C); relates to unlawful charges in connection with tickets; permits reasonable charges for costs actually rendered or otherwise in connection to customer support, technological and software infrastructure, and actual operational costs for sales away from the box office; defines terms (Part D); relates to the availability of tickets for sale to the general public; defines a term (Part E); relates to paperless ticketing systems options (Part F); extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to tickets to places of entertainment (Part G).
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8221--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 23, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, BASKIN, BRISPORT, BROUK, FAHY, FERNANDEZ,
GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES, HINCHEY, KRUEGER, LIU, MAY, MYRIE, PARKER,
RIVERA, C. RYAN, SANDERS, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations
and Government Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Investi-
gations and Government Operations in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the arts and cultural affairs law, in relation to estab-
lishing an annual professional reseller renewal fee and requiring
professional ticket resellers to provide their New York state ticket
reseller license number (Part A); to amend the arts and cultural
affairs law, in relation to providing criteria for when a purchaser
may obtain a full refund of the amount paid for a ticket (Part B); to
amend the arts and cultural affairs law, in relation to resale
requirements for tickets (Part C); to amend the arts and cultural
affairs law, in relation to unlawful charges in connection with tick-
ets (Part D); to amend the arts and cultural affairs law, in relation
to the availability of tickets for sale to the general public (Part
E); to amend the arts and cultural affairs law, in relation to paper-
less ticketing systems options (Part F); and to amend chapter 704 of
the laws of 1991 amending the arts and cultural affairs law and chap-
ter 912 of the laws of 1920 relating to regulation of boxing and wres-
tling matches relating to tickets to places of entertainment, and
chapter 151 of the laws of 2010 amending the arts and cultural affairs
law relating to resale of tickets to places of entertainment, in
relation to extending the effectiveness thereof (Part G)
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Affordable
2 Concerts Act".
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. This act enacts into law components of legislation that relate to
2 live event ticket sales. Each component is wholly contained within a
3 Part identified as Parts A through G. The effective date for each
4 particular provision contained within such Part is set forth in the last
5 section of such Part. Any provision in any section contained within a
6 Part, including the effective date of the Part, which makes reference to
7 a section "of this act", when used in connection with that particular
8 component, shall be deemed to mean and refer to the corresponding
9 section of the Part in which it is found, unless noted otherwise.
10 PART A
11 Section 1. Section 25.03 of the arts and cultural affairs law is
12 amended by adding a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
13 11. "Professional reseller" means a reseller, also referred to as a
14 ticket broker, and includes any person, firm, corporation or other enti-
15 ty that is involved in the business of the resale of tickets. Individ-
16 uals who do not regularly engage in the business of reselling tickets,
17 who resell fewer than thirty tickets per year and who obtain the tickets
18 for such individual's personal use or the use of friends and family, are
19 not deemed professional resellers for the purposes of this article.
20 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 25.13 of the arts and cultural affairs
21 law, as amended by chapter 374 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read
22 as follows:
23 1. (a) No [person, firm or corporation] professional reseller shall
24 resell or engage in the business of reselling any tickets to a place of
25 entertainment or operate an internet website or any other electronic
26 service that provides a mechanism for two or more parties to participate
27 in a resale transaction or that facilitates resale transactions by the
28 means of an auction, or own, conduct or maintain any office, branch
29 office, bureau, agency or sub-agency for such business without having
30 first procured a license or certificate for each location at which busi-
31 ness will be conducted from the secretary of state. Any operator or
32 manager of a website that serves as a platform to facilitate resale, or
33 resale by way of a competitive bidding process, solely between third
34 parties and does not in any other manner engage in resales of tickets to
35 places of entertainment shall be exempt from the licensing requirements
36 of this section. The department of state shall issue and deliver to such
37 applicant a certificate or license to conduct such business and to own,
38 conduct or maintain a bureau, agency, sub-agency, office or branch
39 office for the conduct of such business on the premises stated in such
40 application upon the payment by or on behalf of the applicant of a fee
41 of five thousand dollars and shall be renewed upon the payment of [a
42 like fee annually.] an annual renewal fee pursuant to paragraph (b) of
43 this subdivision. Such license or certificate shall not be transferred
44 or assigned, except by permission of the secretary of state. Such
45 license or certificate shall run to the first day of January next ensu-
46 ing the date thereof, unless sooner revoked by the secretary of state.
47 Such license or certificate shall be granted upon a written application
48 setting forth such information as the secretary of state may require in
49 order to enable [him or her] them to carry into effect the provisions of
50 this article and shall be accompanied by proof satisfactory to the
51 secretary of state of the moral character of the applicant. No online
52 resale marketplace shall allow a ticket to be posted for resale without
53 first verifying the professional reseller's New York state ticket
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1 reseller license number if such seller meets the criteria for a profes-
2 sional reseller as defined in this section.
3 (b) The annual professional reseller renewal fee shall be:
4 (i) for a professional reseller that resells more than thirty tickets
5 but less than one hundred tickets per year, an annual renewal fee of two
6 hundred fifty dollars to maintain a professional reseller license; and
7 (ii) for a professional reseller that resells one hundred or more
8 tickets per year, an annual renewal fee of one thousand dollars to main-
9 tain a professional reseller license.
10 (c) "Tickets" shall mean, for purposes of paragraph (b) of this subdi-
11 vision: (i) each resold ticket not originally purchased by the profes-
12 sional reseller as part of a season or subscription ticket package; or
13 (ii) a set of resold tickets originally purchased by the professional
14 reseller as part of a season or subscription ticket package.
15 § 3. Section 25.19 of the arts and cultural affairs law, as amended by
16 chapter 110 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
17 § 25.19. Posting of license or certificate. 1. For the purposes of
18 this section, "online resale marketplace" means any operator or manager
19 of a website or other electronic service that resells tickets or serves
20 as a platform to facilitate resale, or resale by way of a competitive
21 bidding process.
22 2. Immediately upon the receipt of the license or certificate issued
23 pursuant to this article by the secretary of state, the licensee named
24 therein shall cause such license to be posted and at all times displayed
25 in a conspicuous place in the principal office of such business for
26 which it is issued, and shall cause the certificate for each branch
27 office, bureau, agency or sub-agency to be posted and at all times
28 displayed in a conspicuous place in such branch office, bureau, agency
29 or sub-agency for which it is issued, so that all persons visiting such
30 principal office, branch office, bureau, agency or sub-agency may readi-
31 ly see the same, and if such licensee does business on the internet,
32 including via a retail ticket purchasing platform, to provide a license
33 number displayed in a conspicuous manner or a hyperlink displayed in a
34 conspicuous manner to a scanned copy of such license. Such license or
35 certificate shall at all reasonable times be subject to inspection by
36 the secretary of state or [his or her] their authorized inspectors. It
37 shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership or corporation hold-
38 ing such license or certificate to post such license or certificate or
39 to permit such certificate to be posted upon premises other than those
40 described therein or to which it has been transferred pursuant to the
41 provisions of this article or unlawfully to alter, deface or destroy any
42 such license or certificate. For purposes of this section, the term
43 "retail ticket purchasing platform" shall mean a retail ticket purchas-
44 ing website, application, phone system, or other technology platform
45 used to sell tickets.
46 3. (a) An online resale marketplace shall require professional resell-
47 ers to provide their New York state ticket reseller license number as a
48 condition of utilizing an online resale marketplace to resell tickets.
49 (b) An online resale marketplace shall disclose in a clear and
50 conspicuous manner a notice on the advertisement or offer of a ticket or
51 tickets that such ticket or tickets being purchased are being resold by
52 a licensed New York state professional reseller.
53 (c) Every online resale marketplace shall disclose the licensing
54 number of the professional reseller in a clear and conspicuous manner.
55 Such disclosure of the licensing number shall be displayed in the tick-
56 eting listing prior to the ticket being selected for purchase. Disclo-
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1 sure of the licensing number shall not be false or misleading and may
2 not be presented more prominently or in the same or larger size as the
3 total price. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to nullify,
4 expand, restrict, or otherwise amend or modify now existing laws or
5 regulations outside of this article, and nothing in this subdivision
6 shall be construed as making lawful any fraudulent, deceptive, or ille-
7 gal act or practice that is unlawful pursuant to now existing laws or
8 regulations.
9 § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
10 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to sections
11 25.03, 25.13 and 25.19 of the arts and cultural affairs law made by
12 sections one, two and three of this act shall not affect the repeal of
13 such sections and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
14 PART B
15 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 25.07 of the arts and cultural
16 affairs law, as amended by chapter 61 of the laws of 2007, is amended
17 and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
18 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person, firm or
19 corporation, regardless of whether or not licensed under this article,
20 that sells tickets or facilitates the sale of tickets, resells tickets
21 or facilitates the resale or resale auction of tickets between independ-
22 ent parties by any means, must guarantee to each purchaser of such sold
23 or resold tickets that the person, firm or corporation will provide a
24 full refund of the amount paid by the purchaser (including, but not
25 limited to, all fees, regardless of how characterized), unless the
26 purchaser elects to retain such tickets or unless the purchaser and
27 ticket seller or reseller agree to exchange such ticket for a ticket of
28 comparable value for the same event at a different date in lieu of a
29 full refund within thirty days of receiving such notice of an opportu-
30 nity for a refund, if any of the following occurs: (a) the event for
31 which such ticket has been sold or resold is cancelled, provided that if
32 the event is cancelled then actual handling and delivery fees need not
33 be refunded as long as such previously disclosed guarantee specifies
34 that such fees will not be refunded; (b) the ticket received by the
35 purchaser does not grant the purchaser admission to the event described
36 on the ticket, for reasons that may include, without limitation, that
37 the ticket is counterfeit or that the ticket has been cancelled by the
38 issuer due to non-payment, or that the event described on the ticket was
39 cancelled for any reason prior to purchase of the sold or resold ticket,
40 unless the ticket is cancelled due to an act or omission by such
41 purchaser; [or] (c) the ticket fails to conform to its description as
42 advertised unless the buyer has pre-approved a substitution of tickets;
43 (d) the event for which such ticket has been sold or resold is postponed
44 more than once in a calendar year; (e) the event for which such ticket
45 has been sold or resold has been rescheduled to a subsequent date more
46 than one year from the initial event date; or (f) the event for which
47 such ticket has been sold or resold has been postponed and has not been
48 rescheduled within three months after the initial event date. Upon the
49 occurrence of any of the aforementioned events, the seller or reseller
50 shall notify the purchaser of such tickets and shall provide a thirty-
51 day window during which the purchaser may elect to retain such tickets,
52 exchange such ticket for a ticket of comparable value for the same event
53 at a different date, or receive a full refund. If, at the end of the
54 thirty-day window, the purchaser of such tickets does not choose one of
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1 the aforementioned options, they shall receive an immediate full refund
2 for the amount paid by the purchaser including but not limited to all
3 fees, regardless of how characterized. The secretary of state shall
4 promulgate rules and regulations regarding notification procedures and
5 shall determine a sufficient refund time period, which shall be no less
6 than thirty days following the occurrence of a triggering event.
7 5. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person, firm or
8 corporation, regardless of whether or not licensed under this article or
9 designated as a professional reseller or an online resale marketplace,
10 that resells tickets or facilitates the resale or resale auction of
11 tickets between independent parties by any means, shall guarantee with-
12 out restriction to each purchaser of such resold tickets that the
13 person, firm or corporation will honor, communicate and facilitate, if
14 so requested by such purchaser, all opportunities for refunds,
15 exchanges, or other remedies due to event cancellation or postponement
16 that are publicly offered by a primary ticket seller, as defined in
17 subdivision twelve of section 25.03 of this article, to original
18 purchasers of such tickets.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
20 have become a law, provided, however, that the amendments to section
21 25.07 of the arts and cultural affairs law made by section one of this
22 act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed
23 repealed therewith.
24 PART C
25 Section 1. Section 25.10 of the arts and cultural affairs law, as
26 added by chapter 110 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
27 § 25.10. Ticket resale requirements. 1. It shall be unlawful for a
28 licensee or other ticket reseller to advertise for the sale of tickets,
29 contract for the sale of tickets, contract to obtain tickets for anoth-
30 er, or accept consideration for payment in full or for a deposit for the
31 sale of tickets unless [such licensee or other ticket reseller meets one
32 or more of the following requirements] and until:
33 (a) such licensee or other ticket reseller has the offered ticket in
34 its possession or has a written contract to obtain the offered ticket at
35 a certain price from a person or entity in possession of the ticket or
36 from a person or entity who has a contractual right to obtain such tick-
37 et; and
38 (b) [such licensee or other ticket reseller has a written contract to
39 obtain the offered ticket at a certain price from a person in possession
40 of the ticket or from a person who has a contractual right to obtain
41 such ticket; or
42 (c) such licensee or other ticket reseller informs the purchaser in a
43 clear and conspicuous manner and in plain language at the time of offer-
44 ing such ticket for sale and in a written notice prior to the completion
45 of the transaction that such licensee or other ticket reseller does not
46 have possession of the ticket, has no contract to obtain the offered
47 ticket at a certain price from a person in possession of the ticket or
48 from a person who has a contractual right to obtain such ticket, may not
49 be able to supply the ticket at the contracted price or range of prices,
50 and requires such purchaser to expressly confirm prior to completing the
51 transaction that the purchaser has read such notice.
52 2. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a licensee or other ticket
53 reseller from accepting a deposit from a prospective purchaser for a
54 resale pursuant to paragraph (c) of subdivision one of this section,
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1 provided that such licensee or other ticket reseller informs the
2 purchaser in writing prior to receipt of consideration of the terms of
3 the deposit agreement, and includes in the written notice the disclo-
4 sures otherwise required by this section. If a licensee or ticket
5 reseller has entered into a contract with or received consideration from
6 a prospective purchaser for the sale of a ticket or tickets and cannot
7 supply such ticket or tickets at the contracted price or price range,
8 such licensee or ticket reseller shall refund any monies paid by such
9 prospective purchaser within ten business days of receipt of a request
10 for a refund from such purchaser.
11 3.] tickets to the event have been placed on sale by the venue or
12 entity hosting the event or its authorized agent. For the purposes of
13 this section, "placed on sale" shall mean the date and time when tickets
14 are made available for sale to the general public, excluding any prior
15 sales to fan clubs, businesses, and persons for promotional activities.
16 This paragraph shall not apply to season or subscription ticket holders.
17 2. Nothing in this section shall be construed to nullify, expand,
18 restrict, or otherwise amend or modify now existing laws or regulations
19 outside of this article, and nothing in this section shall be construed
20 as making lawful any fraudulent, deceptive, or illegal act or practice
21 that is unlawful pursuant to now existing laws or regulations.
22 [4.] 3. The attorney general shall have jurisdiction to enforce the
23 provisions of this section in accordance with the powers granted to [him
24 or her] them by section sixty-three of the executive law.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
26 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to section
27 25.10 of the arts and cultural affairs law made by section one of this
28 act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed
29 repealed therewith.
30 PART D
31 Section 1. Section 25.03 of the arts and cultural affairs law is
32 amended by adding two new subdivisions 12 and 13 to read as follows:
33 12. "Primary ticket seller" means an owner or operator of a venue or
34 sports team, a manager or provider of an event, or a provider of ticket-
35 ing services or an agent of such owner, operator, manager, or provider
36 that engages in the primary sale of tickets for an event or retains the
37 authority to otherwise distribute tickets.
38 13. "Placed on sale" means the date and time when tickets are made
39 available for sale to the general public, excluding any prior sales to
40 fan clubs, businesses, and persons for promotional activities.
41 § 2. Section 25.29 of the arts and cultural affairs law, as amended by
42 section 1 of part E of chapter 358 of the laws of 2022, is amended to
43 read as follows:
44 § 25.29. Unlawful charges in connection with tickets. 1. No operator
45 of any place of entertainment, or [his or her] their agent, represen-
46 tative, employee or licensee shall, if a price be charged for admission
47 thereto, exact, demand, accept or receive, directly or indirectly, any
48 premium or price in excess of the established price plus lawful taxes
49 whether designated as price, gratuity or otherwise; provided, however:
50 (a) nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit a reasonable
51 service charge of twenty-five or less percent of the price of a ticket
52 prior to the addition of any charges by [the operator or agents of the
53 operator] any person, firm or corporation, regardless of whether or not
54 licensed under this article, that sells tickets or facilitates the sale
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1 of tickets, resells tickets or facilitates the resale or resale auction
2 of tickets between independent parties by any means for special
3 services[, including but not limited to,] actually rendered or otherwise
4 in connection to customer support, technological and software infras-
5 tructure, and actual operational costs for sales away from the box
6 office[, credit card sales or delivery]; [and] (b) nothing in this arti-
7 cle shall be construed to prohibit an operator or its agent from offer-
8 ing for initial sale tickets by means of an auction; and (c) nothing in
9 this section shall apply to tickets sold or resold for events at venues
10 with a seating capacity of less than six thousand five hundred guests.
11 2. A reasonable and actual cost for the physical delivery of tickets
12 may be charged by the seller or reseller based on the method of delivery
13 selected by the purchaser; provided, however, that no delivery fee shall
14 be charged by a seller or reseller for tickets delivered electronically
15 or tickets that may be printed independently by the purchaser.
16 3. Any person, firm or corporation, regardless of whether or not
17 licensed under this article, that sells tickets or facilitates the sale
18 of tickets is prohibited from requiring a minimum price for the resale
19 of any tickets purchased from a primary ticket seller.
20 4. (a) The total price at which a ticket reseller may sell or offer to
21 sell a ticket to a live music concert or music performance may not
22 exceed the total price of the initial ticket, inclusive of all fees and
23 taxes, including those set forth in subdivision one of this section, in
24 connection with the purchase of the initial ticket and if an initial
25 ticket was purchased for a series of events, the total resale price of a
26 ticket for a single event may not exceed the total price of a single
27 comparable ticket, including all fees and taxes.
28 (b) Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to apply to tickets
29 acquired through a seat license that entitles a seat holder to purchase
30 tickets for a designated seat in a venue for multiple events, including
31 music and non-music related events, over a period of time not exceeding
32 one year.
33 5. In any prosecution under this section the attorney general shall
34 have concurrent jurisdiction with any district attorney and in any such
35 prosecution [he or she or his or her] they or their deputy shall exer-
36 cise all the powers and perform all the duties which the district attor-
37 ney would otherwise be authorized to exercise or perform therein.
38 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
39 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to sections
40 25.03 and 25.29 of the arts and cultural affairs law made by sections
41 one and two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such sections and
42 shall be deemed repealed therewith.
43 PART E
44 Section 1. The arts and cultural affairs law is amended by adding a
45 new section 25.04 to read as follows:
46 § 25.04. Tickets withheld from sale to general public. Primary ticket
47 sellers shall disclose and display in a clear and conspicuous manner
48 on the website, at the box office and any other method of ticket
49 distribution of such primary ticket seller, the total number of tickets
50 offered for sale to the general public by such primary ticket seller not
51 less than seven days before the date on which tickets shall be available
52 for primary sale. The total number shall be periodically updated by the
53 primary ticket seller if and when additional tickets are subsequently
54 released for sale to the general public or when there is a five percent
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1 increase in the amount of tickets released for sale to the general
2 public. This subdivision shall not apply to: (i) venues with a seating
3 capacity of less than six thousand five hundred guests; or (ii) places
4 of entertainment such as fair grounds, amusement parks, museums, observ-
5 atories, ski resorts, ice skating rinks and other recreational facili-
6 ties or events wherein rides, exhibits and displays, games or activities
7 of skill or chance or the sale of food, beverages, toys and souvenirs
8 constitute the main uses.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
10 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to article 25
11 of the arts and cultural affairs law made by section one of this act
12 shall not affect the repeal of such article and shall be deemed repealed
13 therewith.
14 PART F
15 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 25.30 of the arts
16 and cultural affairs law, as added by chapter 151 of the laws of 2010,
17 is amended to read as follows:
18 (c) employ a paperless ticketing system unless the consumer is given
19 an option to purchase paperless tickets that the consumer can transfer
20 at any price, and at any time, and without additional fees, independent
21 of the operator or operator's agent, except as otherwise provided in
22 subdivision four of section 25.29 of this article. Notwithstanding the
23 foregoing, an operator or operator's agent may employ a paperless tick-
24 eting system that does not allow for independent transferability of
25 paperless tickets only if the consumer is offered an option at the time
26 of initial sale to purchase the same tickets in some other form that is
27 transferable independent of the operator or operator's agent including,
28 but not limited to, paper tickets or e-tickets. The established price
29 for any given ticket shall be the same regardless of the form or trans-
30 ferability of such ticket. The ability for a ticket to be transferred
31 independent of the operator or operator's agent shall not constitute a
32 special service for the purpose of imposing a service charge pursuant to
33 section 25.29 of this article.
34 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
35 have become a law, provided, however, that the amendments to paragraph
36 (c) of subdivision 1 of section 25.30 of the arts and cultural affairs
37 law made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such
38 section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
39 PART G
40 Section 1. Section 4 of chapter 704 of the laws of 1991 amending the
41 arts and cultural affairs law and chapter 912 of the laws of 1920 relat-
42 ing to the regulation of boxing and wrestling matches relating to tick-
43 ets to places of entertainment, as amended by chapter 155 of the laws of
44 2025, is amended to read as follows:
45 § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
46 have become a law, provided, chapter 61 of the laws of 2007 shall not
47 take effect with respect to the issuance of licenses or certificates
48 under this article by the secretary of state or department of state
49 until January 1, 2008 and regulation under this article by the commis-
50 sioners of licenses of the political subdivisions of the state shall
51 continue through December 31, 2007, and shall remain in full force and
52 effect only until and including June 30, [2026] 2029 when such act shall
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1 be repealed and when, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
2 provisions of article 25 of title G of the arts and cultural affairs
3 law, repealed by such act, shall be reinstituted; provided further that
4 section 25.11 of the arts and cultural affairs law, as added by section
5 one of this act, shall survive such repeal date. Provided, however, the
6 printing on tickets required pursuant to sections 25.07 and 25.08 of
7 article 25 of the arts and cultural affairs law, as added by this act,
8 shall not apply to tickets printed prior to enactment of such article so
9 long as notice of the higher maximum premium price and prohibition of
10 sales within one thousand five hundred feet from the physical structure
11 of the place of entertainment, where applicable, is prominently
12 displayed at the point of sale and at such place of entertainment.
13 § 2. Section 11 of chapter 151 of the laws of 2010, amending the arts
14 and cultural affairs law relating to resale of tickets to places of
15 entertainment, as amended by chapter 155 of the laws of 2025, is amended
16 to read as follows:
17 § 11. Notwithstanding the provisions of article 5 of the general
18 construction law, if this act shall take effect after May 15, 2010, the
19 provisions of article 25 of the arts and cultural affairs law, except
20 section 25.11 are hereby revived and shall continue in full force and
21 effect as they existed on May 15, 2010 through June 30, [2026] 2029 when
22 upon such date such provisions shall expire and be deemed repealed.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
24 § 3. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
25 sion, section or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of
26 competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
27 impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in
28 its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section
29 or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
30 ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
31 the legislature that this act would have been enacted even if such
32 invalid provisions had not been included herein.
33 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
34 the applicable effective date of Parts A through G of this act shall be
35 as specifically set forth in the last section of such Parts.
