Sec. 10. It is a violation of this chapter for an unused property merchant required to maintain receipts under this chapter to knowingly do any of the following:

(1) Falsify, obliterate, or destroy the receipts.

Terms Used In Indiana Code 24-4-12-10

  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
  • unused property merchant: means a person, other than a vendor or a merchant with an established retail store in the county, who transports an inventory of goods to a building, vacant lot, or other unused property market location and who, at that location, displays the goods for sale and sells the goods at retail or offers the goods for sale at retail. See Indiana Code 24-4-12-3
(2) Refuse or fail upon request to make the receipts available for inspection within a period that is reasonable based on the individual circumstances surrounding the request. However, this chapter does not require the unused property merchant to possess the receipt on or about the merchant’s person without reasonable notice.

(3) Fail to maintain the receipts required by this chapter for at least two (2) years after the date of the transaction.

As added by P.L.99-1999, SEC.1.