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[TITLE 13. Table of Contents]
13-13-1 Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Motion
Picture Fair Bidding Act."
1979
13-13-2 Definitions.
As used in this act:
(1) "Blind bidding" means bidding, negotiating, offering terms, making an invitation to bid, or agreeing to terms for the purpose of entering into a license agreement prior to a trade screening of the motion picture that is the subject of the agreement.
(2) "Distributor" means any person engaged in the business of renting, selling or licensing motion pictures to exhibitors.
(3) "Exhibitor" means any person engaged in the business of operating a theatre in this state.
(4) "License agreement" means any contract between a distributor and an exhibitor for the exhibition of a motion picture by the exhibitor in this state.
(5) "Theatre" means any establishment in which motion pictures are exhibited regularly to the public for a charge.
(6) "Trade screening" means the showing of a motion picture
by a distributor in one of the three largest cities within
this state having the largest population, which showing shall
be open to any exhibitor interested in exhibiting the motion
picture.
1979
13-13-3 Blind bidding prohibited.
No distributor shall engage in blind bidding.
1979
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
shall not require a guarantee of a minimum payment to the
distributor or require the exhibitor to charge any per capita
amount for ticket sales.
1979
13-13-5 Bids - Contents.
If bids are solicited from exhibitors for the purpose
of entering into a license agreement, the bid shall include
in the invitation to bid the date, time and location of the
trade screening of the motion picture that is the subject
of the invitation to bid.
1979
13-13-6 Provisions waiving or violating act void.
Any provision of an invitation to bid or a license agreement
that waives any of the prohibitions of or fails to comply
with this act is void and unenforceable.
1979
13-13-7 Violation a misdemeanor.
It is unlawful for any person to willfully violate any
provision of this chapter. Any such violation is a class
B misdemeanor.
1991
