GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION
CHAPTER 165
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 14-344 reads as rewritten:
"§ 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 ticket,
tax, and the authorized service fee. This service fee may not exceed three
dollars ($3.00) for each ticket. ticket except that a promoter or
operator of the property where the event is to be held and a ticket sales
agency may agree in writing on a reasonable service fee greater than three
dollars ($3.00) for the first sale of tickets by the ticket sales agent. This
service fee may be a preestablished 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 is effective upon ratification. Prosecutions for offenses committed before the effective date of this act are not abated or affected by this act, and the provisions of this statute that would be applicable but for this act remain applicable to those prosecutions.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 29th day of May, 1991.
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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives