Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 59.1 > Chapter 38.2 - Ticket Resale Rights Act

• Bicycle: means a device propelled solely by human power, upon which a person may ride either on or astride a regular seat attached thereto, having two or more wheels in tandem, including children's bicycles, except a toy vehicle intended for use by young children. See Virginia Code 46.2-100
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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. See Virginia Code 59.1-466.5
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Internet ticketing platform: means a marketplace or exchange that enables consumers to purchase and sell tickets to events. See Virginia Code 59.1-466.5
• Operator: means a person or subsidiary thereof that owns, operates, or controls a place of entertainment. See Virginia Code 59.1-466.5
• Person: includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, government, political subdivision, or any other legal or commercial entity and any successor, representative, agent, agency, or instrumentality thereof. See Virginia Code 1-230
• 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. See Virginia Code 59.1-466.5
• Purchaser: means an individual who purchases a ticket to an event. See Virginia Code 59.1-466.5
• Resale: means the sale of a ticket other than the original sale of a ticket by a primary ticket provider. See Virginia Code 59.1-466.5
• Reseller: means a person that sells or offers to sell tickets for resale. See Virginia Code 59.1-466.5
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• 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. See Virginia Code 59.1-466.5
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245
• URL: means the Uniform Resource Locator associated with an online website. See Virginia Code 59.1-466.5
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.