NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 909

HOUSE BILL 569

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 14, SECTION 344 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES REGULATING THE SALE OF ADMISSION TICKETS IN EXCESS OF THE SALE PRICE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 14-344 is amended by rewriting said section to read as follows:

"§ 14-344.  Sale of admission tickets in excess of printed price. — Any person, firm, or corporation shall be allowed to add a reasonable service fee to the face value of the tickets sold, and the person, firm, or corporation which sells or resells such tickets shall not be permitted to recoup funds greater than the combined face value of the ticket and the authorized service fee. This fee shall not exceed ten percent (10%) of the sales price. This service fee may be a pre-established amount per ticket or a percentage of each ticket. The existence of the service fee shall be made known to the public by printing or writing the amount of the fee on the tickets which are printed for the event. Any person, firm or corporation which sells or offers to sell a ticket for a price greater than the price permitted by this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00), imprisonment for not more than six months, or both."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.