New Jersey S 134: Authorizes court to impose rescue operation costs of public entity under certain circumstances.

Bill Text

S134 

SENATE, No. 134 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator JAMES W. HOLZAPFEL

District 10 (Monmouth and Ocean)

SYNOPSIS

���� Prohibits sale of tickets not in reseller's 
possession.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning the sale of tentative tickets and amending P.L.1983, c.135.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 9 of P.L.1983, 
c.135 (C.56:8-34) is amended to read as follows:

���� 9.� a.� No person shall resell 
or purchase with the intent to resell any ticket, in or on any street, highway, 
driveway, sidewalk, parking area, or common area owned by a place of 
entertainment in this State, or any other area adjacent to or in the vicinity 
of any place of entertainment in this State as determined by the director; 
except that a person may resell, in an area which may be designated by a place 
of entertainment in this State, any ticket or tickets originally purchased for 
his own personal or family use at no greater than the lawful price permitted 
under P.L.1983, c.135 (C.56:8-26 et seq.).

���� b.��� Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, any reseller or ticket resale website shall guarantee 
to each purchaser of resold tickets that the reseller or ticket resale website 
will provide a full refund of the amount paid by the purchaser, including, but 
not limited to, all fees, regardless of how characterized, if any of the 
following occurs:

���� (1)�� the event for which that 
ticket has been resold is cancelled, provided that if the event is cancelled, 
then actual handling and delivery fees need not be refunded as long as that 
previously disclosed guarantee specifies that those fees will not be refunded; 
or

���� (2)�� the ticket received by 
the purchaser does not grant the purchaser admission to the event described on 
the ticket, for reasons that may include, but are not limited to, that the 
ticket is counterfeit, the ticket has been cancelled by the ticket issuer due 
to non-payment, or the event described on the ticket was cancelled for any 
reason prior to purchase of the resold ticket, unless the ticket is cancelled 
due to an act or omission by that purchaser.

���� c. (1) No reseller shall 
employ a tentative ticket policy whereby the reseller sells tickets that are 
not in the reseller's possession at the time of sale[, unless that policy is disclosed 
to a ticket purchaser at the outset of the transaction.� That disclosure shall 
include an approximate delivery date and the number of tickets that are 
guaranteed together, including the zone or section number.� If the reseller is 
unsuccessful in securing those tickets, the reseller shall refund any deposit 
made by a purchaser of those tickets within 10 days after the event].� 

���� (2)�� A reseller shall not 
sell a ticket for the same seat to more than one person at the same time.

���� d.��� No person shall use or 
cause to be used any means, method or technology that is designed, intended or 
functions to disguise the identity of the purchaser with the purpose of 
purchasing or attempting to purchase a quantity of tickets to a place of 
entertainment in excess of authorized limits established by a ticket issuer.

���� e.���� No person shall use or 
cause to be used software, or any other technology or device, that is designed, 
intended or functions to interfere with a computer, computer network, or 
computer system, or any part thereof, for the purpose of purchasing or attempting 
to purchase or obtain access to a quantity of tickets to a place of 
entertainment in excess of authorized limits established by a ticket issuer, or 
that is designed, intended or functions to circumvent or disable any access 
control systems, electronic queues, waiting periods or other sales volume 
limitation systems to ensure the equitable distribution of tickets instituted 
on the website of the ticket issuer.

(cf: P.L.2018, c.117, s.3.)

���� 2.��� This act shall take 
effect immediately and shall be applicable to ticket sales that occur on or 
after the date of enactment.

STATEMENT

���� This bill amends current law 
governing the reselling of tickets by prohibiting tentative ticket sales, 
otherwise known as 

�speculative ticketing.�� Specifically, the bill removes provisions of current 
law that allow for the sale of tickets not in the reseller�s possession under 
certain circumstances.� The bill prohibits resellers from employing tentative 
ticket policies, whereby the reseller sells tickets that are not in the 
reseller's possession at the time of sale.