A 8802: Extends certain provisions relating to allowing artists to set certain rules about the resale of tickets to certain events to June 30, 2026.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8802 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY June 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend chapter 704 of the laws of 1991 amending the arts and cultural affairs law and chapter 912 of the laws of 1920 relating to regulation of boxing and wrestling 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 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 4 of chapter 704 of the laws of 1991 amending the 2 arts and cultural affairs law and chapter 912 of the laws of 1920 relat- 3 ing to the regulation of boxing and wrestling matches relating to tick- 4 ets to places of entertainment, as amended by section 1 of part F of 5 chapter 358 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows: 6 § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 7 have become a law, provided, chapter 61 of the laws of 2007 shall not 8 take effect with respect to the issuance of licenses or certificates 9 under this article by the secretary of state or department of state 10 until January 1, 2008 and regulation under this article by the commis- 11 sioners of licenses of the political subdivisions of the state shall 12 continue through December 31, 2007, and shall remain in full force and 13 effect only until and including June 30, [2025] 2026 when such act shall 14 be repealed and when, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 15 provisions of article 25 of title G of the arts and cultural affairs 16 law, repealed by such act, shall be reinstituted; provided further that 17 section 25.11 of the arts and cultural affairs law, as added by section 18 one of this act, shall survive such repeal date. Provided, however, the 19 printing on tickets required pursuant to sections 25.07 and 25.08 of 20 article 25 of the arts and cultural affairs law, as added by this act, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13253-02-5 
 A. 8802 2 1 shall not apply to tickets printed prior to enactment of such article so 2 long as notice of the higher maximum premium price and prohibition of 3 sales within one thousand five hundred feet from the physical structure 4 of the place of entertainment, where applicable, is prominently 5 displayed at the point of sale and at such place of entertainment. 6 § 2. Section 11 of chapter 151 of the laws of 2010, amending the arts 7 and cultural affairs law relating to resale of tickets to places of 8 entertainment, as amended by section 2 of part F of chapter 358 of the 9 laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows: 10 § 11. Notwithstanding the provisions of article 5 of the general 11 construction law, if this act shall take effect after May 15, 2010, the 12 provisions of article 25 of the arts and cultural affairs law, except 13 section 25.11 are hereby revived and shall continue in full force and 14 effect as they existed on May 15, 2010 through June 30, [2025] 2026 when 15 upon such date such provisions shall expire and be deemed repealed. 16 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.