S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2424
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 20, 2023
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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