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Int 1231-2016

Vending Tickets

IntroductionEnactedCommittee on Consumer Affairsintroduced 2016-07-14Local Law 2016/093

Enacted as Local Law 2016/093.

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Agenda: 2016-07-14Passed: 2016-08-03Enacted: 2016-08-03

Summary

The bill would create an exemption to the rebuttable presumption applicable to vending tickets. The rebuttable presumption that violation of any laws or rules relating to ticket selling was caused by the place of entertainment, mode of transportation, or guided tour whose ticket is vended and/or the person on whose behalf the ticket is vended would not apply where the ticket is counterfeit or where the circumstances of the vending were not authorized or subject to the control of such venue.

Committee on Consumer Affairs — Department of Consumer Affairs

How it compares

22% of similar bills passed

11 passed · 39 died

This bill: 20 days in committee

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Sponsors (1)

Daniel R. Garodnick(prime)

Lifecycle

HeardHearing on P-C Item by Comm
2016-07-12 · Committee on Consumer Affairs
AdvancedP-C Item Approved by Comm
2016-07-12 · Committee on Consumer Affairs
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2016-07-14 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2016-07-14 · City Council
AdvancedApproved by Council
2016-07-14 · City Council
ActionSent to Mayor by Council
2016-07-14 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Mayor
2016-08-03 · Mayor
AdvancedSigned Into Law by Mayor
2016-08-03 · Mayor
ActionRecved from Mayor by Council
2016-08-04 · City Council

Heard at (1)

City Council · 2016-07-14 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (13)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Subdivision d of section 20-559 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 80 for the year 2016, is amended to read as follows: d. For the purposes of this subchapter, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that any violation of any provision of this subchapter or any rules promulgated pursuant to such subchapter by a ticket seller was caused by: 1. the place of entertainment, mode of transportation, or guided tour whose ticket is vended; and/or 2. the person on whose behalf the ticket is vended. Such presumption shall not apply: (i) where the ticket vended is counterfeit and was not issued by the place of entertainment, mode of transportation, or guided tour; or (ii) where the circumstances of the vending were not authorized or subject to the control of the place of entertainment, mode of transportation, or guided tour. e. A proceeding to recover any civil penalty pursuant to this section shall be commenced by the service of a summons or notice of violation which shall be returnable to the office of administrative trials and hearings. � 2. This local law takes effect on the same date that local law number 80 for the year 2016 takes effect. KET 6/28/16 1:57PM LS 8561/2016 1