Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 37, § 1973. Payment by loadable payment card or check for copper, aluminum-copper air conditioning coils, or other metals required; check cashing prohibited

A. (1) An operator shall not enter into any cash transactions in payment for the purchase of copper or aluminum-copper air conditioning coils. After five business days from the date of the transaction, payment for copper or aluminum-copper air conditioning coils shall be made in the form of a check made payable to the name and address of the seller of the copper or aluminum-copper air conditioning coils, or a loadable payment card and shall be tendered to the seller in any of the following manners:

(2) An operator shall not enter into any cash transactions in excess of three hundred dollars in payment for the purchase of metal property other than copper or aluminum-copper air conditioning coils. Payments in excess of three hundred dollars for metals other than copper or aluminum-copper air conditioning coils shall be made in the form of a check made payable to the name and address of the seller or a loadable payment card and may be tendered to the seller at the time of the transaction. The operator, at his discretion, may make payment by either cash or other method for transactions of three hundred dollars or less for all metals other than copper or aluminum-copper air conditioning coils.

D. (1) No operator shall allow a seller to engage in multiple transactions within a twenty-four hour period totaling more than three hundred dollars for the purpose of circumventing this Section.

(2) No operator shall cash, offer to cash, or provide the means for exchanging for cash a check issued to a seller pursuant to this Section on the premises of the operator's place of business, including but not limited to the use of an automatic teller machine.