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Old 11-07-2023, 06:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Jayhawk View Post
Is it legal to charge a credit card surcharge in Florida?

Florida has a law prohibiting credit card surcharges, but that law was held unconstitutional by federal courts. Therefore, merchants in Florida may add a surcharge to credit card purchases.

ยง 501.0117 Declared Unconstitutional

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed the district court ruling and found that Florida's no-surcharge statute regulated speech and violated businesses' commercial speech rights, and thus was unconstitutional.
Huh??? Violated free speech rights?? If I was really interested and not too lazy I would do a deep dive into this further. Sounds hokey. Just saying.