No Cash
HOUSE BILL NO. 195 Act 389
Louisiana: Can not use cash to buy used items.
A secondhand dealer shall not enter into any cash transactions
in payment for the purchase of junk or used or secondhand property.
Anyone,
other than a nonprofit entity,
who buys, sells, trades in, or otherwise acquires or disposes of junk or used or secondhand property
more frequently than once per month
from any other person, other than a nonprofit entity,
shall be deemed
as being engaged in the business of
a secondhand dealer.
BY
- REPRESENTATIVES
- Clif Richardson (R) resigned
- Bobby Badon (D) would not seek reelection
- Regina Ashford Barrow (D)
- Stuart J. Bishop (R)
- Thomas Gaughan Carmody (R), Jr.
- Franklin J. Foil (R)
- Rickey Hardy (D)
- Reed S. Henderson (D)
- Kay Kellogg Katz (R) former member
- James Rogers Pope (R)
- Stephen E. Pugh (R)
- Alan Thomas Seabaugh (R)
- Major Thibaut (D)
- Thomas Phillip Willmott (R)
SENATOR Dale Michael Erdey (R)
https://legiscan.com/LA/text/HB195/id/343620/Louisiana-2011-HB195-Chaptered.pdf
A secondhand dealer shall not enter into any cash transactions in payment
for the purchase of junk or used or secondhand property
Every secondhand dealer shall obtain a signed statement from the seller
that the junk or used or secondhand property has been paid for or is owned by the seller,
and a failure of the dealer to exact a statement from the seller
shall be primafacie evidence of the fraudulent intent and guilty knowledge
on the part of the dealer within the meaning of this Part,
sufficient to warrant a conviction
Any one acting as a second-hand an unlicensed secondhand dealer
without complying with the provisions of this Part
shall be fined not less than two hundred and fifty dollars
or be imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days,
or both
B. For a second offense, the offender shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars
or be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than two years, or both.
C. For a third or subsequent offense, the offender shall be fined
not more than ten thousand dollars or be imprisoned with or without hard labor
for not more than five years, or both.
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