If United States money is legal tender for all debts, then why are some business refusing cash for payment. This practice should be illegal, right? If one wishes not to use a bank check, credit card, other electronic payment or money order shouldn't they be able to pay in cash?

Auto insurance is mandated by or government, yet insurance companies are no longer accepting legal tender for payment. Is our government mandating that we can no longer use legal tender to pay our bills? In a court of law would you be found guilty for offering to pay your debt with cash and it was refused?

This practice should be illegal, right?

Nope. The merchant can specify any form of payment up front, be it dollar bills or credit card or euros or gold or cowrie shells. If you go to purchase something, say a pack of gum, the merchant can refuse to enter into a contract to provide you with the gum if you have only pennies. No debt has been incurred, so that's alright.

On the other hand, if you've entered into a contract that places you in debt, say you're renting an apartment for so many dollars a month (no description for the payment type) and offer pennies, the landlord must accept them. If he refused and took you to court over non-payment, the court would rule that he would have to accept pennies as they fulfill your contractual obligations as legal tender.

Wrong Chucks, the Supreme Court has ruled that payment of large bills in pennies is unreasonable and an undue hardship on the business or government and coins may be refused in such circumstances. Even banks will refuse pennies if they are not already rolled.

Hey Boe you got a link to that? I've never in my life heard of this "undue hardship" on any business. If you have a previously arranged debt and you in good faith try to pay using legal tender which all coins and bills issued by the Federal Reserve are (that's why they say right on them "all debts public and private") they are obliged to take US legal tender or in most cases the debt will be discharged by a court if they pursue it that far.

I have never heard of any Supreme Court ruling that lower courts can refuse coins that are tendered for payments of fines and other legal fees.

Can airline refuse to accept exact change, in cash notes, for a baggage fee? My bag was oversize and I was refused permission to board if I did not pay by credit card. I had a boarding pass, isn't that an existing contract? There is no "credit card only" notice that I can find on Continental Airlines/United website.

Continental baggage policy states that "in general we will accept up to two pieces of checked baggage....". There are size and weight limits, but no mention of payment method. Isn't this an implied contract that means they must accept my bag and legal tender, unless they are refusing bags for flight safety or some other uniformly applied reason?

I've been refused twice trying to pay $934 on a fine in in Pennines the DeKalb county courthouse What can I do

I've had 1 dollar coins refused by a court as payment for a fine.

@ERIK It's been upheld in court for private businesses. They can refuse any amount of legal tender for a debt if it puts an undue burden upon them to do so. You would have to sue them and demonstrate that whatever you were paying with was reasonable. Pretty common sense, right? Weird but it does happen with laws sometimes.

That said, debt associated with a public office must accept all currently circulated legal tender for payment of a debt. This means you can (albeit it's a waste of everybody's time, money, patience, etc.) pay for any of your taxes in dollar bills or coins. You also have to be careful that the time spent counting would not put you past your bill's due date (and the office has no obligation to hire more people or stay open extra hours for you), or otherwise be considered disorderly (i.e. dumping unrolled coins on a desk or floor, or throwing the bills unwrapped). You're already going to be on some government official's bad side, so you can't give them any reason at all to press a charge or else than can and probably will. And if counting takes past the normal operating hours, you'll have to come back the next day and so on and so on until they finish.

Nowadays, they'll likely just ask to take you to a bank and let their automated machines count it for you. You have no legal basis to challenge this practice or force them to count it by hand unless you can prove (in court) that it's inaccurate (or at least more inaccurate than counting it by hand).

I know for a fact that Tx.dept.of criminal justice (TDCJ) doesn't accept cash. I find this insulting to me as a vet and as a Tx. native.In my opinion that practice isn't justice and should be illegal at both the state and national level. right now our legal tender isn't !!!

I just paid a Stop Light Violation in Pennies, they tried to deny it but once I said this was the only way to pay the debt before the due date, they accepted the payment and wrote a receipt without counting it...

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