(815 ILCS 414/1) (was 720 ILCS 375/1)
Sec. 1. Sale of tickets other than at box office prohibited; exceptions.
(a) It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, owner, lessee,
manager, trustee, or any of their employees or agents, owning, conducting,
managing or operating any theater, circus, baseball park, or place of public
entertainment or amusement where tickets of admission are sold for any such
places of amusement or public entertainment to sell or permit the sale,
barter or exchange of such admission tickets at any other place than in the
box office or on the premises of such theater, circus, baseball park, or place
of public entertainment or amusement, but nothing herein prevents such
theater, circus, baseball park, or place of public entertainment or amusement
from placing any of its admission tickets for sale at any other place at
the same price such admission tickets are sold by such theater, circus,
baseball park, or other place of public entertainment or amusement at its
box office or on the premises of such places, at the same advertised price
or printed rate thereof. (b) Any term or condition of the original sale of a ticket to any theater, circus, baseball park, or place of public entertainment or amusement where tickets of admission are sold that purports to limit the terms or conditions of resale of the ticket (including but not limited to the resale price of the ticket) is unenforceable, null, and void if the resale transaction is carried out by any of the means set forth in subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e) of Section 1.5 of this Act. This subsection shall not apply to a term or condition of the original sale of a ticket to any theater, circus, baseball park, or place of public entertainment or amusement where tickets of admission are sold that purports to limit the terms or conditions of resale of a ticket specifically designated as seating in a special section for a person with a physical disability.
(Source: P.A. 99-78, eff. 7-20-15.)
|