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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>83573</law_id><section_number>15.2-969</section_number><catch_line>Ordinances prohibiting resale of tickets to certain public events; penalty</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="15.2">Counties, Cities and Towns</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Powers of Local Government</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="9">General Powers of Local Governments</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="5">Additional Powers</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any <span class="dictionary">locality</span> may provide, by <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span>, that it is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to resell for profit any ticket for admission to any sporting event, theatrical production, lecture, <span class="dictionary">motion</span> picture or any other event open to the public for which tickets are ordinarily sold, except in the case of religious, charitable, or educational organizations where all or a portion of the admission price reverts to the sponsoring group and the resale for profit of such ticket is authorized by the sponsor of the event and the manager or owner of the facility in which the event is being held. Such <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span> may provide that violators thereof are guilty of a Class 3 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.
		This section shall not apply to any resale of a ticket that occurs on the Internet.</p></section></text><history>1970, c. 530, &#xA7; 15.1-29.3; 1982, c. 279; 1995, c. 339; 1997, c. 587; 2009, cc. 321, 376.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
