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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 23, "OFFENSES AND MISCEL-
LANEOUS PROVISIONS", OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT
WORTH, TEXAS (1986), AS AMENDED, BY ADDING A NEW
SECTION 23-16, "CERTAIN TICKET RESALES PROHIBITED ON
CITY PROPERTY"; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE IS
CUMULATIVE OF ALL ORDINANCES; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; PROVIDING A PENALTY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR
ENGROSSMENT AND ENROLLMENT; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION
IN THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER; AND NAMING AN EFFECTIVE
DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
WORTH, TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
That Chapter 23, "Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions", of
the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas (1986) , as amended, is
hereby further amended by adding the following new section:
"Sec. 23-16. Certain ticket resales prohibited on
City property.
(a) In this section:
(1) "Event" means an event of public entertain-
ment or amusement.
(2) "Event sponsor" means an owner, lessee, opera-
tor, promoter or manager of an event or the
site of an event.
(3) "City property" means any property which is
owned or used by the City of Fort Worth to
which the public or a substantial group of
the public has access and includes but is not
limited to city streets, alleys, sidewalks,
parks, grounds and buildings.
(4) "Resell" means to sell a ticket after it has
been purchased from the event sponsor or from
an individual, corporation, or association
authorized to sell the ticket by the event
sponsor.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person while on City
property to resell or offer to resell a ticket to
an event for a price in excess of the price autho-
rized to be offered to the general public by the
event sponsor."
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SECTION 2.
This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of all
ordinances and of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas
(1986), as amended, except where the provisions of this ordinance
are in direct conflict with the provisions of such ordinances and
such Code, in which event conflicting provisions of such ordi-
nances and such Code are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3.
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City
Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and
phrases of this ordinance are severable, and, if any phrase,
clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be
declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any
court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall
not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, para-
graphs and sections of this ordinance, since the same would have
been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in
this ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sen-
tence, paragraph or section.
SECTION 4.
Any person, firm or corporation who violates, disobeys,
omits, neglects or refuses to comply with or who resists the
enforcement of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be
fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each
offense. Each time that conduct occurs in violation hereof shall
constitute a separate offense.
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SECTION 5.
The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth is hereby
directed to engross and enroll this ordinance by copying the cap-
tion and Sections 1, 4 and 7 in the minutes of the City Council
and by filing the ordinance in the ordinance records of the City.
SECTION 6.
The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is
hereby directed to publish the caption and Sections 1, 4 and 7 of
this ordinance for two (2) days in the official newspaper of the
City of Fort Worth, Texas, as authorized by Section 52.013, Texas
Local Government Code.
SECTION 7.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after its passage and publication as required by law, and it is
so ordained.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
City Attorney
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DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE PAGE
NUMBER PROHIBITING TICKET SCALPING ON CITY 1
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the City Council adopt the attached ordinance prohibiting
ticket scalping on City property.
DISCUSSION:
The City Manager has received numerous complaints about persons who purchase
tickets for events at City facilities and resell them to the public at inflated
prices. This practice ("ticket scalping") is a particular problem at the annual
Stock Show and Livestock Exhibition.
The attached ordinance would add anew Section 23-16 to the Fort Worth City Code
to do the following:
1. Make it unlawful for a person on City property to resell or offer to
resell a ticket at a price in excess of that authorized by the sponsor of
the event; and
2. Make each violation punishable by a fine of not more than $500.
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APPROVED BY '
CITY CO~NC jL
~a~Y ~R 1991
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City Secretory of the
City of Fort Worth, Text
SUBMITTED FOR THE
CITY MANAGER'S DISPOSITION BY COUNCIL. PROCESSED BY
OFFICE BY Mi ^ APPROVED
ORIGINATING ^ OTHER (DESCRIBE)
DEPARTMENT HEAD• Wade Adkins 7623 CITY SECRETARY
CONTACTTIONAL INFORMATION Wade Adkins 7623 Adopted Ordinance Nor
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