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1995 SESSION


CHAPTER 339
An Act to amend and reenact § 15.1-29.3 of the Code of Virginia, relating to ordinances prohibiting resale of tickets to public events; penalty.
[H 2357]
Approved March 16, 1995

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 15.1-29.3 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 15.1-29.3. Ordinances prohibiting resale of tickets to certain public events; penalty.

The governing body of any county, city or town may provide, by ordinance, that it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to resell for profit any ticket for admission to any sporting event, theatrical production, lecture, motion picture or any other event open to the public for which tickets are ordinarily sold, except in the case of religious, charitable, or educational organizations where all or a portion of the admission price reverts to the sponsoring group and the resale for profit of such ticket is authorized by the sponsor of the event and the manager or owner of the facility in which the event is being held. Such ordinance may provide that violators thereof are guilty of a Class 4 3 misdemeanor.