Every owner, keeper or proprietor of a junk shop, junk store, salvage yard, scrap processor, junk cart or other vehicle or boat, or collector of or dealer in junk, salvage or other secondhand property, shall keep a separate book, register or other electronic system used to record and maintain the data required by this section, in which he or she shall enter the following information: name, address, age, a photocopy of the driver license or other form of government-issued photo identification, the vehicle description and vehicle license tag number of the person or persons from whom ten (10) pounds or more of copper, copper alloy, aluminum, aluminum alloy or any item listed in Section 8 of this act, is purchased; vehicle license tag number and description of vehicle or conveyance in which delivered; the date and place of each purchase of copper, copper alloy, aluminum, aluminum alloy or any item listed in Section 8 of this act; the description shall include the weight of the materials purchased, including whether the same is in wire, cable, bars, rods, sheeting or tubing and, if any insulation is thereon, the names and addresses of the persons, groups of persons or corporations from whom seller purchased the materials. Such book, register or other electronic system shall be made available to any person authorized by law for inspection at any time. The purchaser of any copper, copper alloy, aluminum, aluminum alloy or any item listed in Section 8 of this act, shall hold the purchases separate and apart so that such materials shall be readily identifiable from all other purchases for a period of not less than ten (10) days from the date of purchase of such materials during which period the purchaser shall not change the form of the materials and shall permit any person authorized by law to make inspection of such materials during the ten-day holding period; provided, however, that all such purchases made from persons, firms, corporations or municipal corporations who construct, operate, or maintain electric distribution and transmission, communications facilities or produce scrap copper or aluminum in their normal course of business or the sale of copper or aluminum material by one licensed junk dealer to another are not subject to the ten-day holding period; and there shall be required from such persons, firms, corporations or municipal corporations a bill of sale or other written evidence of title of such purchases. The purchaser shall also report in writing all purchases of copper, copper alloy, aluminum, aluminum alloy or item listed in Section 8 of this act, to the sheriff of the county in which the purchases are made, if requested in writing by the sheriff, within forty-eight (48) hours after any such purchase is made. The report made to the sheriffs shall contain all of the information required to be maintained in the book or register provided for herein. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the sale or purchase of aluminum beverage cans which are obtained for recycling purposes.

Laws 1967, SB 161, c. 102, § 1, emerg. eff. April 24, 1967; Amended by Laws 1996, SB 1224, c. 89, § 1, eff. November 1, 1996; Amended by Laws 2007, HB 1399, c. 99, § 4 (superseded document available).