This Part does not apply to:

(1) Purchases of regulated metals property from a manufacturing, industrial, government, or other commercial vendor that generates or sells regulated metals property in the ordinary course of its business.

Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 66-427

(2) Purchases of regulated metals property that involve only beverage containers, except that N.C. Gen. Stat. § 66-423 shall apply in that case. (2012-46, s. 28.)