It shall be unlawful for any corporation, firm, limited liability company, or person, their agents or employees, to issue, sell, pledge, assign, or transfer, in this state, any receipt, certificate or other written instrument purporting to be a warehouse receipt, or in the similitude of a warehouse receipt, or designed to be understood as a warehouse receipt, for goods, wares or merchandise stored or deposited, or claimed to be stored or deposited, in any warehouse, public or private, in any other state, unless such receipt, certificate or other written instrument shall have been issued by the warehouseman operating such warehouse.
IC 26-3-4-1