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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.taxes,net.legal,net.auto
Subject: Re: Paying Sales tax twice
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 22:05:35 EST
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In article <493@faron.UUCP> ao@faron.UUCP (Alan R. Ouellette) writes:
>     If I end up having to pay this tax,  can I pay them 626,018
>pennies?  Can they refuse to accept pennies as legal tender?  And
>if they do, can I say that they refused payment and be able to get 
>my registration anyway?

From what I've read somewhere, any amount of pennies more than 50 is
not legal tender.  Furthermore, I've heard, from a student at the school
at the time, that Princeton University applied this when one of their
seemingly random $50 fees sparked an abortive penny protest, but I do
not have the details.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720