13-13 - Motion Picture Fair Licensing Act

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13-13-1 - Title.

This chapter is known as the “Motion Picture Fair Licensing Act.”

Amended by Chapter 291, 2015 General Session

13-13-2 - Definitions.

As used in this chapter:

(1) “Distributor” means any person engaged in the business of renting, selling or licensing motion pictures to exhibitors.

(2) “Exhibitor” means any person engaged in the business of operating a theatre in this state.

(3) “License agreement” means any contract between a distributor and an exhibitor for the exhibition of a motion picture by the exhibitor in this state.

(4) “Theatre” means any establishment in which motion pictures are exhibited regularly to the public for a charge.

Amended by Chapter 291, 2015 General Session

13-13-4 - Payment of percentage of receipts.

If an exhibitor is required by a license agreement to make any payment to the distributor that is based on a percentage of the theatre box office receipts the license agreement may not require a guarantee of a minimum payment to the distributor or require the exhibitor to charge any per capita amount for ticket sales.

Amended by Chapter 378, 2010 General Session

13-13-6 - Provisions waiving or violating act void.

Any provision of a license agreement that fails to comply with this act is void and unenforceable.

Amended by Chapter 291, 2015 General Session

13-13-7 - Violation an infraction.

It is unlawful for any person to willfully violate any provision of this chapter. A violation of this chapter is an infraction.

Amended by Chapter 433, 2018 General Session