ANAHEIM – Disney parks are testing out a new way to crack down on businesses that rent out discounted, multiday tickets by the day – a practice that violates company policy.

On Jan. 8, the parks began the practice of taking digital pictures of visitors using multiday passes and putting the pictures in computers. That way, Disney employers can check the pictures against the tickets as those visitors enter Disneyland or Disney California Adventure.

Children and adults are photographed. The photos are erased when the tickets expire.

Suzi Brown, a Disneyland Resort spokeswoman, said the parks are testing out the practice as a way to prevent businesses from renting out multiday passes by the day at discounted rates.

Disneyland Resort sells one-day tickets for those ages 10 and up that allow visitors to go to both parks on the same day for $125 each.

Longer-term tickets are sold at a lower per-day rate, such as five-day passes for $290, or $58 a day. Off-site businesses would get the multiday tickets and rent them for $90 to $99 a day.

The practice was legal but violated Disney’s policy, which states that Disney’s tickets are nontransferable and must be used by the same person each day.

Until last fall, Disney would only check identification sporadically, so most visitors using those discounted passes got away with it.

Brown said the picture-taking is the same process that Disney has used for annual pass holders, whose photos also are checked as they enter the park.

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