Title 59.1. Trade and Commerce
Chapter 38.2. Ticket Resale Rights Act
§ 59.1-466.5. Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
"Event" means any professional concert, live entertainment event, professional sporting or athletic event, or professional theatrical production open to the public for which tickets are ordinarily sold.
"Internet ticketing platform" means a marketplace or exchange that enables consumers to purchase and sell tickets to events.
"Operator" means a person or subsidiary thereof that owns, operates, or controls a place of entertainment.
"Primary ticket provider" means a provider of ticketing services, or an agent of such provider, that engages in the original sale of tickets for an event.
"Purchaser" means an individual who purchases a ticket to an event.
"Resale" means the sale of a ticket other than the original sale of a ticket by a primary ticket provider.
"Reseller" means a person that sells or offers to sell tickets for resale.
"Rights holder" means any person or entity that has the initial ownership rights to sell a ticket to an event for which tickets for entry by the public are required and does not include a primary ticket provider unless the primary ticket provider is also the rights holder.
"URL" means the Uniform Resource Locator associated with an online website.
