HB265 Alabama 2017 Session

Under existing law, an admission ticket that was originally issued, sold, or authorized by an organizer of certain events may be transferred or resold.

This bill would: (1) allow a ticket issuer to employ a nontransferable ticketing system only if the consumer is offered an option at the time of original sale to purchase the same ticket in a transferable form; and (2) provide that a ticket buyer or seller may not be penalized or discriminated against or denied access to an event solely on the grounds that the ticket or tickets were resold.

This bill would also specify specific circumstances in which a ticket issuer or venue operator may elect not to offer tickets in a transferable form.

Relating to ticket sales; to allow a ticket issuer to employ a nontransferable ticketing system only under specified circumstances; to provide that a ticket buyer or seller may not be penalized or discriminated against or denied access to an event solely on the grounds that the ticket or tickets were resold; to prohibit a person from using or selling software to circumvent a security measure, access control system, or other control or measure used by a primary ticket sales platform or secondary ticket exchange to engage in specified activity; and to specify that the act does not apply to certain events hosted by an institution of higher education.