N.Y. Civil Rights Law § 40-b: Wrongful refusal of admission to and ejection from places of public entertainment and amusement

§ 40-b. Wrongful refusal of admission to and ejection from places of

public entertainment and amusement. No person, agency, bureau,

corporation or association, being the owner, lessee, proprietor,

manager, superintendent, agent or employee of any place of public

entertainment and amusement as hereinafter defined shall refuse to admit

to any public performance held at such place any person over the age of

twenty-one years who presents a ticket of admission to the performance a

reasonable time before the commencement thereof, or shall eject or

demand the departure of any such person from such place during the

course of the performance, whether or not accompanied by an offer to

refund the purchase price or value of the ticket of admission presented

by such person; but nothing in this section contained shall be construed

to prevent the refusal of admission to or the ejection of any person

whose conduct or speech thereat or therein is abusive or offensive or of

any person engaged in any activity which may tend to a breach of the

peace.

The places of public entertainment and amusement within the meaning of

this section shall be legitimate theatres, burlesque theatres, music

halls, opera houses, concert halls and circuses.