{"data":{"id":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-9-14-402","jurisdiction":"us-wy","citation":"Wyo. Stat. § 9-14-402","heading":"Definitions.","body":"(a) As used in this act:\n(i) \"Assign\" or \"assignment\" means a policy, process or practice that labels, links or otherwise associates a firearms or ammunition code with a merchant or payment card transaction in a manner that allows any entity facilitating or processing the payment card transaction to identify whether a merchant is a firearms retailer or whether a transaction involves the sale or purchase of firearms or ammunition;\n(ii) \"Customer\" means any person engaged in a payment card transaction;\n(iii) \"Disclosure\" means the transfer, publication or distribution of protected financial information to another person or entity for any purpose other than to process or facilitate a payment card transaction;\n(iv) \"Financial record\" means a financial record held by a merchant servicer related to a payment card transaction that the merchant servicer has processed or facilitated;\n(v) \"Firearms code\" means any code or other indicator that a merchant servicer assigns to a merchant or to a payment card transaction that identifies whether a merchant is a firearms retailer or whether the payment card transaction involves the purchase of a firearm, firearm accessories or ammunition. The term \"firearms code\" includes, but is not limited to, a merchant category code assigned to a retailer by a payment card network or other merchant servicer;\n(vi) \"Firearms retailer\" means any person engaged in the lawful business of selling or trading firearms or ammunition to be used in firearms;\n(vii) \"Government entity\" means any county or municipality, or state board, commission, agency, bureau, department or any other political subdivision of the state;\n(viii) \"Protected financial information\" means any record of a sale, purchase, return or refund involving a payment card that is retrieved, characterized, generated, labeled, sorted or grouped based on the assignment of a firearms code;\n(ix) \"Merchant category code\" means classification codes assigned by a merchant processor to merchants or payees that accept its payment cards to classify the goods or services provided or furnished by a merchant or payee;\n(x) \"Merchant servicer\" means a payment settlement entity, merchant acquiring entity or third party settlement organization as defined by 26 U.S.C. 6050W or any other entity that specifically assigns a merchant category code for use in a payment card transaction;\n(xi) \"This act\" means W.S. 9-14-401 through 9-14-404.","path":["TITLE 9 - ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMEN","CHAPTER 14 - PROTECTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS","ARTICLE 4 SECOND AMENDMENT FINANCIAL PRIVACY ACT"],"source_url":"https://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title09.pdf","current_through":"2026 Budget Session; as of 2026-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T00:16:32Z","sha256":"9a9956f9b27343f4dd1e5a11d252c3109f2402b7417a0458f2c853948e7c379c","source_id":"us-wy","stale":false,"prev":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-9-14-401","next":"us-wy/wyo.-stat.-9-14-403"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}