Section 201 - DefinitionsThe following words and phrases when used in this act shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
(1) "Amusement." All manner and forms of entertainment including among others theatrical or operatic performances, concerts, moving picture shows, vaudeville, circus, carnival and side shows; all forms of entertainment at fair grounds, and amusement parks, athletic contests, including wrestling matches, boxing and sparring exhibitions, football and baseball games, skating, golfing, tennis, hockey, bathing, swimming, archery, shooting, riding, dancing and all other forms of diversion, sport, recreation or pastime, shows, exhibitions, contests, displays and games.(2) "City." Any city of the first class.(3) "Department." The Department of Revenue of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.(4) "Established Price." The price fixed by the owner of any place of amusement for admission thereto, which must be stamped, printed or written on each ticket of admission.(5) "Licensor." The county treasurer of each county of the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class, and the receiver of taxes in each city of the first class.(6) "Owner." Any person who owns, operates or controls a place of amusement or who promotes or produces an amusement, or any person who promotes or produces an amusement with the written contractual consent of the owner or operator of an amusement.(7) "Place of Amusement." Any place indoors or outdoors where the general public or a limited or selected number thereof may upon payment of an established price attend or engage in any amusement as herein defined, including among others theatres, opera houses, moving picture houses, amusement parks, stadiums, arenas, baseball parks, skating rinks, circus or carnival tents or grounds, fair grounds, social, sporting, athletic, riding, gun and country clubs, riding academies, golf courses, bathing and swimming places, dance halls, tennis courts, archery, rifle or shotgun ranges, roof gardens, cabarets, nightclubs and other like places.(8) "Producer." Any person who engages an act or amusement and puts on the show.(9) "Promoter." Any person engaged by a producer to promote an amusement.(10) "Resale." The act of selling any ticket of admission by one party to another after an original sale to a party by an owner or an agent of an owner.(11) "Ticket." Any evidence of the right of entry to any amusement or place of amusement for admission to which a price is charged.(12) "Ticket purchasing software." Computer software primarily designed for the purpose of interfering with the operations of a ticket seller by circumventing: (i) a security measure of the ticket seller's Internet website;(ii) an access control system of the ticket seller's Internet website; or(iii) any function or operation of the ticket seller's Internet website designed to ensure that the sale of tickets, including, but not limited to, the number of tickets sold to a single purchaser, occurs in an equitable manner for members of the public.(13) "Ticket seller." A person who has executed a written agreement with an owner to sell, over the Internet, tickets to an amusement.1947, May 2, P.L. 143, §1. Amended 1990 , June 29, P.L. 263, No. 62, § 1, effective in 60 days; 2010, May 12, P.L. 187, No. 23, § 1, imd. effective.