Baltimore City Council
File #: 13-0239    Version: 0 Name: Ticket Sales - Consumer Protections
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 6/3/2013 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 8/19/2013
Enactment #: 13-157
Title: Ticket Sales - Consumer Protections FOR the purpose of repealing certain provisions that require ticket sellers to be licensed; authorizing operators of entertainment venues and their sales agents to impose charges or fees in addition to the established box office price, subject to certain limitations and required disclosures; modifying certain provisions that prohibit ticket “scalping”; repealing certain obsolescent provisions prohibiting street sales of tickets for certain events; defining various terms; imposing certain civil and criminal penalties; conforming, correcting, and clarifying related provisions; repealing certain obsolete provisions; and generally relating to the sale and resale of tickets for admission to entertainment venues in Baltimore City.
Sponsors: Carl Stokes, Warren Branch, Bill Henry, President Young
Indexes: Consumer Affairs, Protective Measures, Ticket Sale
Attachments: 1. 13-0239 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Law - 13-0239.pdf, 3. ECB - 13-0239.pdf, 4. Downtown Partnership - 13-0239.pdf, 5. Finance - 13-0239.pdf, 6. Police - 13-0239.pdf, 7. 13-0239 - 3rd Reader.pdf
EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL

Introduced by: Councilmember Stokes

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Ticket Sales - Consumer Protections

FOR the purpose of repealing certain provisions that require ticket sellers to be licensed; authorizing operators of entertainment venues and their sales agents to impose charges or fees in addition to the established box office price, subject to certain limitations and required disclosures; modifying certain provisions that prohibit ticket “scalping”; repealing certain obsolescent provisions prohibiting street sales of tickets for certain events; defining various terms; imposing certain civil and criminal penalties; conforming, correcting, and clarifying related provisions; repealing certain obsolete provisions; and generally relating to the sale and resale of tickets for admission to entertainment venues in Baltimore City.
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BY repealing
Article 15 - Licensing and Regulation
Subtitle 21 - Ticket Agencies
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

BY repealing
Article 19 - Police Ordinances
Subtitle 55 - Ticket Sales
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

BY adding
Article 2 - Consumer Protections
Sections 16-1 through 16-18, to be under the new subtitle designation.
“Subtitle 16. Ticket Sales”
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

BY adding
Article 1 - M...

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