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After repeated fights over free tickets to Nationals Park and the Verizon Center, one member of the D.C. Council doesn’t want to get rid of the perk—he just wants to codify in law.

The Post reported yesterday evening that Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) will propose an amendment to the 2013 budget today that would enshrine in law how free tickets for luxury suites at games and other events are doled out among the mayor, the council chair and the councilmembers:

For instance, at Nationals Park, the 38 box tickets available per event will be split as follows: eight for the mayor, four for the council chairman and two each for the other 12 council members. Of the 25 lower bowl seats, 11 would go to the mayor, two to the chairman and two to alternating groups of six council members.

For Verizon Center events, where officials have access to a pair of 18-seat boxes, the mayor would get 10 tickets and the 13 council members would get two tickets apiece.

Notably, neither the mayor nor the council chairman would have any discretion is distributing the tickets — it would fall to the CEO of the Washington Convention and Sports Authority to hand them out according to the law.

Under the current setup, the responsibility for distributing tickets has been left to the mayor and council chair, an arrangement that has provoked one too many fights between the city’s top elected officials. Under Mayor Adrian Fenty, councilmembers complained that they weren’t getting their fair share of free tickets to Nats Park and the Verizon Center; even with Fenty gone last year, they’ve still managed to complain to D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown about not getting their freebies.

The free tickets come from D.C.’s investment in both venues, and legislators say that they are often given out to constituents. Both Fenty and Gray have gifted the tickets to family, campaign aides and senior staff, though.