BILL NUMBER: AB 329	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Pan

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2013

   An act to amend Section 22500 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to ticket sellers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 329, as introduced, Pan. Ticket sellers.
    Existing law provides a comprehensive scheme for the regulation
of ticket sellers and, among other things, requires ticket sellers,
as defined, to have a permanent business address from which tickets
may only be sold, to include that address in advertisements, and to
be licensed, as specified.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 22500 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   22500.  (a) A ticket seller shall have a permanent business
address from which tickets may only be sold and that address shall be
included in any advertisement or solicitation, and shall be duly
licensed as may be required by  any   a 
local jurisdiction.
   (b) A violation of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor
punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months,
or by fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500),
or by both.
   (c)  Any   A    person who
engages, has engaged, or proposes to engage in a violation of this
section shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed two
thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) for each violation, which may
be assessed and recovered in a civil action brought in the name of
the people of the State of California by the Attorney General, or a
district attorney, or a city attorney of a city having a population
in excess of 750,000, and, with the consent of the district attorney,
by a city prosecutor in any city, county, or city and county having
a full-time prosecutor in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Payment of the civil penalty shall be made pursuant to the provisions
of subdivision (b) of Section 17206. For the purposes of this
section, each ticket sold or offered for sale in violation of this
section shall constitute a separate violation. The remedies provided
by this section are cumulative to each other and to the remedies or
penalties available under all  of the  other laws of this
state.