Sec. 2. Definitions
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In this Act: The term ancillary charges — means any fee that must be paid in order to secure a ticket from a primary ticket seller or secondary ticket sales marketplace, including a service fee, convenience charge, delivery and logistics fee, and any other mandatory charge; and does not include taxes. The term base price means the price charged for a ticket other than any ancillary charge and tax. The term box office means a physical location where tickets are offered for primary sale.
The term bundled series tickets means a package of tickets for multiple events that are part of the same entertainment series. The term Commission means the Federal Trade Commission. The term domain name means a globally unique, hierarchical reference to an Internet host or service, which is assigned through centralized Internet naming authorities, and which is comprised of a series of character strings separated by periods, with the right most string specifying the top of the hierarchy.
The term primary sale means, with regards to a ticket, the initial sale of a ticket. The term primary ticket seller means an owner or operator of a venue or a sports team, a manager or provider of an event, or a provider of ticketing services (or an agent of such owner, operator, manager, or provider) that engages in the primary sale of tickets for an event. The term purchaser means any person who purchases a ticket from a primary ticket seller or a secondary ticket seller, or on a secondary ticket sales marketplace.
The terms resale or secondary sale means, with regards to a ticket, any sale of a ticket that is not a primary sale. The term secondary ticket sales marketplace means a business, including a primary ticket seller, that operates or provides a website, software application for a mobile device, or any other digital platform, whose purpose is to resell or facilitate the resale of tickets to purchasers. The term secondary ticket seller means an individual, group of individuals, or company, including a primary ticket seller, who engages in the resale or secondary sale of tickets.
The term ticket means a printed, electronic, or other type of evidence of the right for admission to a sporting event, theater, musical performance, or place of public amusement of any kind, including bundled series tickets. The term total cost of the ticket means the base price of the ticket and any ancillary charge. The term URL means the uniform resource locator for an internet website.