§ 59.1-466.5 Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning: “Event” means any professional concert, live entertainment event, professional sporting or athletic event, or professional theatrical production open to the public for which tickets are ordinarily sold. “Internet ticketing platform” means a marketplace or exchange that enables consumers to purchase and sell tickets to events. “Operator” means a person or subsidiary thereof that owns, operates, or controls a place of entertainment. “Primary ticket provider” means a provider of ticketing services, or an agent of such provider, that engages in the original sale of tickets for an event. “Purchaser” means an individual who purchases a ticket to an event. “Resale” means the sale of a ticket other than the original sale of a ticket by a primary ticket provider. “Reseller” means a person that sells or offers to sell tickets for resale. “Rights holder” means any person or entity that has the initial ownership rights to sell a ticket to an event for which tickets for entry by the public are required and does not include a primary ticket provider unless the primary ticket provider is also the rights holder. “URL” means the Uniform Resource Locator associated with an online website.
History
This law was first created in 2017. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 261 and 268 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2023, chapters 304 and 305.
2017, cc. 261, 268; 2023, cc. 304, 305.