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Senate Bill S2424

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to wrongful refusal of admission to and ejection from places of public entertainment and amusement

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2023-S2424 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3195
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Civil Rights Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §40-b, Civ Rts L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
S3850, A6310

2023-S2424 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes sporting events within the definition of places of public entertainment and amusement for purposes of wrongful refusal of admission to and ejection from places of public entertainment and amusement.

2023-S2424 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S2424 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2424
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 20, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  HOYLMAN-SIGAL,  KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investi-
   gations and Government Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to including  sporting
   events  within  the  definition  of places of public entertainment and
   amusement for  purposes  of  wrongful  refusal  of  admission  to  and
   ejection from places of public entertainment and amusement
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 40-b of the civil rights law, as added  by  chapter
 893 of the laws of 1941,  is amended to read as follows:
   §  40-b.  Wrongful refusal of admission to and ejection from places of
 public entertainment and amusement. No person,  agency,  bureau,  corpo-
 ration  or  association,  being  the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager,
 superintendent, agent or employee of any place of  public  entertainment
 and amusement as hereinafter defined shall refuse to admit to any public
 performance  held  at  such  place any person over the age of twenty-one
 years who presents a ticket of admission to the performance a reasonable
 time before the commencement thereof,  or  shall  eject  or  demand  the
 departure  of  any  such person from such place during the course of the
 performance, whether or not  accompanied  by  an  offer  to  refund  the
 purchase  price  or  value  of the ticket of admission presented by such
 person; but nothing in this section  contained  shall  be  construed  to
 prevent  the refusal of admission to or the ejection of any person whose
 conduct or speech thereat or therein is abusive or offensive or  of  any
 person engaged in any activity which may tend to a breach of the peace.
   The places of public entertainment and amusement within the meaning of
 this  section  shall  be  legitimate theatres, burlesque theatres, music
 halls, opera houses, concert halls, SPORTING EVENTS and circuses.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06523-01-3

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