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<p>[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 7772962, member: 76863"]Completely false.</p><p><br /></p><p>Paragraph below cited here:</p><p><a href="https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/currency/pages/legal-tender.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/currency/pages/legal-tender.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/currency/pages/legal-tender.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>"This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy."</p><p><br /></p><p>There's also</p><p><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/legal_tender" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/legal_tender" rel="nofollow">https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/legal_tender</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Then also cited below</p><p><a href="https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>"There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law that says otherwise."</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I mean I guess if you think you know better than the laws sure, shrug[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="baseball21, post: 7772962, member: 76863"]Completely false. Paragraph below cited here: [URL]https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/currency/pages/legal-tender.aspx[/URL] "This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy." There's also [URL]https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/legal_tender[/URL] Then also cited below [URL]https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm[/URL] "There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law that says otherwise." I mean I guess if you think you know better than the laws sure, shrug[/QUOTE]
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