56:8-26 - Definitions
56:8-26 Definitions.
1.As used in this act:
a."Director" means the director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety.
b."Division" means the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety.
c."Person" means corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals.
d."Place of entertainment" means any privately or publicly owned and operated entertainment facility within this State, such as a theater, stadium, museum, arena, racetrack or other place where performances, concerts, exhibits, games or contests are held and for which an entry fee is charged.
e."Ticket" means any piece of paper which indicates that the bearer has paid for entry or other evidence which permits entry to a place of entertainment.
f."Ticket broker" means any person situated in and operating in this State who is involved in the business of reselling tickets of admission to places of entertainment and who charges a premium in excess of the price, plus taxes, printed on the tickets. For the purposes of this act, the term "ticket broker" shall not include an individual not regularly engaged in the business of reselling tickets, who resells less than 30 tickets during any one-year period, and who obtained the tickets for his own use, or the use of his family, friends, or acquaintances.
g."Resale" means a sale by a person other than the owner or operator of a place of entertainment or of the entertainment event or an agent of any such person.
h."Resell" means to offer for resale or to consummate a resale.
i."Digger" means a person temporarily hired for the purpose of securing tickets by intimidating a purchaser waiting in line to procure event tickets.
L.1983, c.135, s.1; amended 1983, c.220, s.1; 2001, c.394, s.1; 2008, c.55, s.1.