Right. According to the Federal Reserve: https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm
"Is it legal for a business in the United States to refuse cash as a form of payment? "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." This is discussed more generally in the article on "Legal Tender" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender "Legal tender is a form of money that courts of law are required to recognize as satisfactory payment for any monetary debt. Each jurisdiction determines what is legal tender, but essentially it is anything which when offered ("tendered") in payment of a debt extinguishes the debt. ... Some jurisdictions allow contract law to overrule the status of legal tender, allowing (for example) merchants to specify that they will not accept cash payments. .... The right, in many jurisdictions, of a trader to refuse to do business with any person means that a would-be purchaser may not force a purchase merely by presenting legal tender, as legal tender must only be accepted for debts already incurred." Also see this discussion about the USA legal situation: https://www.expertlaw.com/library/consumer-protection/it-legal-refuse-cash-payment - Joseph Eisenberg On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 12:11 PM Mark Wagner <mark+...@carnildo.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 17:08:46 -0700 > stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > > > At least in the USA, using currency (required to be accepted) isn't > > like barter (doesn't have to be accepted): we even have a notation > > on each and every "Federal Reserve Note" (the debt instruments used > > in the USA as paper currency, often called "cash") which states: > > "This note is legal tender, for all debts, public and private." > > There's a subtle point you're glossing over here: that wording only > applies to *debts*. > > What counts as a debt has a fair bit of grey area. Paying off a loan? > Indisputably a debt, they're required to take it. Purchasing a soda > from a vending machine? Indisputably not a debt, they can place > whatever restrictions they want. In between is the fuzzy area. For > example, is paying for your restaurant meal settling a debt? > > -- > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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