Requires issuance of refund or credit for tickets purchased through reseller or ticket resale website for events that get postponed.

S4084

SENATE, No. 4084

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MAY 4, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� OWEN HENRY

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

Senator� JOSEPH P. CRYAN

District 20 (Union)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires issuance of refund or credit for tickets
purchased through reseller or ticket resale website for events that get
postponed.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act

concerning certain tickets to postponed events
and amending P.L.1983, c.135.

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Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 9 of P.L.1983,
c.135 (C.56:8-34) is amended to read as follows:

���� 9.��� a.� No person shall
resell or purchase with the intent to resell any ticket, in or on any street,
highway, driveway, sidewalk, parking area, or common area owned by a place of
entertainment in this State, or any other area adjacent to or in the vicinity of
any place of entertainment in this State as determined by the director; except
that a person may resell, in an area which may be designated by a place of
entertainment in this State, any ticket or tickets originally purchased for his
own personal or family use at no greater than the lawful price permitted under
P.L.1983, c.135 (C.56:8-26 et seq.).

���� b.��� Notwithstanding any
other provision of law, any reseller or ticket resale website shall guarantee
to each purchaser of resold tickets that the reseller or ticket resale website
will provide a full refund of the amount paid by the purchaser, including, but
not limited to, all fees, regardless of how characterized, if any of the
following occurs:

���� (1)�� the event for which that
ticket has been resold is cancelled, provided that if the event is cancelled,
then actual handling and delivery fees need not be refunded as long as that
previously disclosed guarantee specifies that those fees will not be refunded;
[
or
]

���� (2)�� the ticket received by
the purchaser does not grant the purchaser admission to the event described on
the ticket, for reasons that may include, but are not limited to, that the
ticket is counterfeit, the ticket has been cancelled by the ticket issuer due
to non-payment, or the event described on the ticket was cancelled for any
reason prior to purchase of the resold ticket, unless the ticket is cancelled
due to an act or omission by that purchaser
; or

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(3)�� the event for which
that ticket has been resold is postponed, provided that if the event is
postponed, then the actual handling and delivery fees need not be refunded as
long as that previously disclosed guarantee specifies that those fees will not
be refunded.� In lieu of a refund, a reseller or ticket resale website may
offer to the purchaser a credit in the amount paid to the reseller or ticket
resale website by the purchaser for the ticket but excluding handling and
delivery fees as long as this exclusion is previously disclosed.� A refund
issued pursuant to this paragraph shall be made available for a period of 30
days after the date of postponement is established
.

���� c.���� (1) No reseller shall
employ a tentative ticket policy whereby the reseller sells tickets that are
not in the reseller's possession at the time of sale, unless that policy is
disclosed to a ticket purchaser at the outset of the transaction.� That disclosure
shall include an approximate delivery date and the number of tickets that are
guaranteed together, including the zone or section number.� If the reseller is
unsuccessful in securing those tickets, the reseller shall refund any deposit
made by a purchaser of those tickets within 10 days after the event.�

���� (2)�� A reseller shall not
sell a ticket for the same seat to more than one person at the same time.

���� d.��� No person shall use or
cause to be used any means, method or technology that is designed, intended or
functions to disguise the identity of the purchaser with the purpose of
purchasing or attempting to purchase a quantity of tickets to a place of
entertainment in excess of authorized limits established by a ticket issuer.

���� e.���� No person shall use or
cause to be used software, or any other technology or device, that is designed,
intended or functions to interfere with a computer, computer network, or
computer system, or any part thereof, for the purpose of purchasing or attempting
to purchase or obtain access to a quantity of tickets to a place of
entertainment in excess of authorized limits established by a ticket issuer, or
that is designed, intended or functions to circumvent or disable any access
control systems, electronic queues, waiting periods or other sales volume
limitation systems to ensure the equitable distribution of tickets instituted
on the website of the ticket issuer.

(cf: P.L.2018, c.117, s.3)

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� The bill amends current law
regarding the issuance of refunds for tickets purchased through a reseller or
ticket resale website.� Specifically, the bill requires a refund if the event
for which a ticket has been resold is postponed, excluding the actual handling
and delivery fees as long as the exclusion is previously disclosed.� In lieu of
a refund, a reseller or ticket resale website may offer to the purchaser a
credit in the amount paid to the reseller or ticket resale website by the
purchaser for the ticket but excluding handling and delivery fees as long as
this exclusion is previously disclosed.� A refund issued under the bill is to
be made available for a period of 30 days after the date of postponement is
established.