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

• Board: means the Commonwealth Transportation Board. See Virginia Code 33.2-100
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the Department of Transportation. See Virginia Code 33.2-100
• 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
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• 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
• Locality: has the meaning assigned to it in § 1-221. See Virginia Code 33.2-100
• Maintenance: means (i) ordinary maintenance; (ii) maintenance replacement; (iii) operations that include traffic signal synchronization, incident management, and other intelligent transportation system functions; and (iv) any other categories of maintenance that may be designated by the Commissioner of Highways. See Virginia Code 33.2-100
• 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
• Process: includes subpoenas, the summons and complaint in a civil action, and process in statutory actions. See Virginia Code 1-237
• 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: includes District of Columbia;

  (f) "Transit facilities" means all real and personal property located in the Zone, necessary or useful in rendering transit service between points within the Zone, by means of rail, bus, water or air and any other mode of travel, including, without limitation, tracks, rights-of-way, bridges, tunnels, subways, rolling stock for rail, motor vehicle, marine and air transportation, stations, terminals and ports, areas for parking and all equipment, fixtures, buildings and structures and services incidental to or required in connection with the performance of transit service;

  (g) "Transit services" means the transportation of persons and their packages and baggage by means of transit facilities between points within the Zone including the transportation of newspapers, express and mail between such points, and charter service which originates within the Zone but does not include taxicab service or individual-ticket-sales sightseeing operations;

  (h) "Transit Zone" or "Zone" means the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Zone created and described in Section 3 as well as any additional area that may be added pursuant to Section 83(a) of this Compact; and

  (i) "WMATC" means Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission. See Virginia Code 33.2-3100

• 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.