Prohibition against declining or refusing to process payment card transaction based solely on assignment or nonassignment of a firearms code; exceptions
Ind. Code § 24-5-27.5-22
in effectSec. 22. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a financial services provider may not decline or otherwise refuse to process a lawful payment card transaction based solely on the assignment or nonassignment of a firearms code to the payment card transaction.
(b) A financial services provider may decline or otherwise refuse to process a lawful payment card transaction involving a firearms retailer on the basis of the assignment or nonassignment of a firearms code:
(1) at the request of the consumer;
(2) in accordance with:
(A) fraud controls; or
(B) merchant category exclusions offered by a financial services provider for the purpose of expenditure control or corporate card control;
applicable to the payment card involved in the payment card transaction; or
(3) for purposes of restricting the use or availability of a firearms code in Indiana.
As added by P.L.132-2024, SEC.4.
Source: Open US Law by Vaquill AI (CC BY 4.0)URL: https://iga.in.gov/laws/2026/ic/titles/24Fetched: 10/17/2026