Report Title:

Ticket Scalping

 

Description:

Establishes the offense of ticket scalping as a misdemeanor.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

227

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

  

STATE OF HAWAII

  

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE HAWAII PENAL CODE.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 708, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part IV to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§708-    Ticket scalping. (1) As used in this section, "event" means a musical concert or an athletic or sporting event to which the general public is admitted.

(2) No person:

(a) Shall issue or sell a ticket to an event without printing on the ticket in a conspicuous place the price of the ticket and the seat number, if any;

(b) Shall charge for admission to an event a price greater than the price advertised or stated on tickets issued for the event;

(c) Shall sell, or offer to sell, a ticket to an event at a price greater than the price charged at the place of admission or printed on the ticket;

(d) After having received a ticket to an event, shall sell, or offer to sell, the ticket in violation of conditions restricting the ticket's transfer; or

(e) Being in control of premises on or in which an event is held, shall permit the sale, or exhibition for sale, on or in the premises, of a ticket to the event at a price greater than the price printed on the ticket.

(3) Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(4) This section shall not apply to the charging of a fee for services rendered in connection with the sale of a ticket to an event, if the fee is permitted pursuant to a contract between the ticket seller and the promoter of the event."

SECTION 2. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun, before its effective date.

SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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