Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 610.002
UNAUTHORIZED CATEGORIZATION OF CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS
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- Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 610.002, UNAUTHORIZED CATEGORIZATION OF CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/631735
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(a) A person or entity involved in facilitating or processing an electronic payment transaction, including a payment card issuer or payment card network, may not assign to a merchant or require a merchant to use a firearms code.
(b) For the purposes of the sale of firearms, ammunition for use in firearms, and firearms accessories, a firearms retailer may not provide a firearms code to a payment card issuer or payment card network and may only use or be assigned a merchant category code for general merchandise retailers or sporting goods retailers. Any agreement or contractual provision to the contrary is void.
(c) A payment card issuer or payment card network shall notify the payment card holder in writing on every occasion that a firearms code is assigned to an electronic payment transaction on the payment card holder's account.