---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1666g"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1666g"
heading: "Tie-in services prohibited for issuance of credit card"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1666g"
units:
  - "Chapter 41 — Consumer Credit Protection"
  - "Subchapter I — Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure"
  - "Part D — Credit Billing"
---

# §1666g. Tie-in services prohibited for issuance of credit card


Notwithstanding any [agreement](/usc/15/7a.md?p=2) to the contrary, a [card issuer](/usc/15/1602.md?p=o) may not require a seller, as a condition to participating in a [credit card](/usc/15/1602.md?p=l) plan, to open an [account](/usc/15/1681a.md?p=r-4) with or procure any other service from the [card issuer](/usc/15/1602.md?p=o) or its subsidiary or agent.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–321, title I, § 168, as added Pub. L. 93–495, title III, § 306, Oct. 28, 1974, 88 Stat. 1515.)