However, Visa's and MasterCard's regulations prohibit merchants from setting minimum charge amounts.

The rules prohibit merchants from imposing a minimum or maximum purchase amount in order to accept a Visa card and from charging cardholders a fee for using a Visa card.

Credit card companies may not prohibit merchants from offering discounts to people who pay with cash or check.

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz of the Bronx has also introduced legislation that would prohibit merchants from selling the pointers to minors.

To prevent credit-card fraud, a new law will prohibit merchants from recording the credit card numbers of shoppers who make a purchase using a personal check.

LEGISLATION PASSED Would prohibit retail merchants from writing down the credit card number of a customer on a personal check.

The defendants are accused of violating a little-known law that prohibits merchants from putting sales through another merchant's credit card terminal.

As an example, they point to Ms. Freed's support for regulations barring fishmongers from displaying their produce outdoors and another rule that prohibits merchants from taking money on the sidewalk.

This rule prohibits merchants from imposing on customers a surcharge for using the means of payment offered by their particular payment system.

In 1823, Governor-General Mariano Ricafort promulgated an edict prohibiting foreign merchants from engaging in retail trade and visiting the provinces for purposes of trade.