State Law

Connecticut Ticket Reselling Legislation

By Ryan

It’s election year and our legislatures are hard at work legislating.

This week at www.aconnecticutlawblog.com , I’ll be taking a look at pending legislation in Connecticut. Each day, I’ll tackle a different bill.

Today’s edition of legislators legislating in an election year is: ticket reselling.

Raised Bill No. 5771 is offensively titled: “An Act Concerning Ticket Scalping.” I can’t believe in 2008 that our legislature still refers to this practice as ticket scalping.

If passed, the law would allow tickets to be resold for 50% more than the face value of the ticket which would include all fees except postage. Under existing law, which no one who has bought tickets on the secondary market will believe, a reseller can only charge $3.00 over the face value of the tickets.

The bill would also require entertainment promoters and venues (including sporting events and concerts) to make  tickets to 75% of the seating capacity of an event available to the general public.

If this bill becomes a law passes, I’ll be very interested to see if it is ever enforced.

In the meantime, I’ll continue to sell my Rock Cats tickets at face value to family and friends.

Full post as published by A Connecticut Law Blog on March 10, 2008 (boomark / email).