Indiana legal term
Retail in Indiana Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Indiana legislative session
In Indiana criminal law, “Retail” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Indiana criminal code.
What does “Retail” mean in Indiana criminal law?
"Retail" means the sale of handguns singly or in small quantities to one who intends to be the ultimate user thereof. (Ind. Code § 35-47-1-9)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Unlawful delivery, manufacture, distribution, or possession of a substance represented to be a controlled substance; factors
- Sale or possession of sales suppression devices
- Nitrous oxide distribution; nonmedical purposes
- Organized retail theft
- Pharmacy or NPLEx retailer; sale of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine; maximum purchase amounts; record keeping and electronic transmission of sales to NPLEx; suspicious orders and thefts; liability
- Possession or sale of drug precursors
- Beer must be bottled at brewery
- Cashing of certain checks prohibited
- Certain interests prohibited
- Certain interests prohibited
- Coin machines selling tobacco products
- Gift of outside sign prohibited
Related terms in the same statutes
This reference is informational and is not legal advice.