Ind. Code § 7.1-1-3-16.5
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"Entertainment complex"
Official statutory text
Sec. 16.5. The term "entertainment complex" means a premises that complies with one (1) or more of the following requirements:
(1) The premises:
(A) is a site for the performance of musical, theatrical, or other entertainment; and
(B) includes an area where at least six hundred (600) individuals may be seated at one (1) time in permanent seating.
(2) The premises:
(A) is located entirely within a five (5) mile radius of the center of a consolidated city;
(B) is used by a nonprofit organization primarily as a museum of fine arts, as a fine arts theater, or for the professional performance of musical or theatrical entertainment; and
(C) has audience:
(i) seating in one (1) or more performance spaces for at least two hundred (200) individuals; or
(ii) capacity of at least two hundred (200) individuals and has artist housing on the premises.
As added by P.L.71-1996, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.216-2019, SEC.2; P.L.285-2019, SEC.3; P.L.194-2021, SEC.13; P.L.220-2023, SEC.1.
(1) The premises:
(A) is a site for the performance of musical, theatrical, or other entertainment; and
(B) includes an area where at least six hundred (600) individuals may be seated at one (1) time in permanent seating.
(2) The premises:
(A) is located entirely within a five (5) mile radius of the center of a consolidated city;
(B) is used by a nonprofit organization primarily as a museum of fine arts, as a fine arts theater, or for the professional performance of musical or theatrical entertainment; and
(C) has audience:
(i) seating in one (1) or more performance spaces for at least two hundred (200) individuals; or
(ii) capacity of at least two hundred (200) individuals and has artist housing on the premises.
As added by P.L.71-1996, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.216-2019, SEC.2; P.L.285-2019, SEC.3; P.L.194-2021, SEC.13; P.L.220-2023, SEC.1.
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