§ 9-14-402 — Definitions

(a) As used in this act:
(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;
(ii) "Customer" means any person engaged in a payment
card transaction;
(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;
(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;
(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;
(vi) "Firearms retailer" means any person engaged in
the lawful business of selling or trading firearms or ammunition
to be used in firearms;
(vii) "Government entity" means any county or
municipality, or state board, commission, agency, bureau,
department or any other political subdivision of the state;
(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;
(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;
(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;
(xi) "This act" means W.S. 9-14-401 through 9-14-404.