Indiana § 24-4-12-10 - Improper maintenance of or failure to produce receipts
Full text of Indiana Indiana Code § 24-4-12-10 — Improper maintenance of or failure to produce receipts, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 24-4-12-10. Improper maintenance of or failure to produce receipts
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.
(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.
Source: official Indiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 24-4-12-10 ("Improper maintenance of or failure to produce receipts") is part of the Indiana Code, the codified statutory law of Indiana. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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