BILL NUMBER: AB 1272	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Grove

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1272, as introduced, Grove. Ticket sellers.
   Existing law requires a ticket seller to have a permanent business
address that shall be included in any advertisement and from which
tickets may only be sold and requires the ticket seller to be
licensed as may be required by a local jurisdiction. A violation of
these provisions is a crime and is subject to a civil penalty.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change 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 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 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   that has  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   that has  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 other
laws of this state.