(a) A junk dealer or recycler shall request to receive theft alert notifications regarding the theft of commodity metals, including, but not limited to, ferrous metal, copper, brass, aluminum, nickel, stainless steel, and alloys, in the junk dealer‘s or recycler’s geographic region from the theft alert system maintained by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc., or its successor.

(b) The requirement in subdivision (a) does not apply if the institute or its successor requires payment for use of the theft alert system.

Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 21608.7

  • junk: means any and all secondhand and used machinery and all ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals and alloys, including any and all secondhand and used furniture, pallets, or other personal property, other than livestock, or parts or portions thereof. See California Business and Professions Code 21600
  • junk dealer: includes any person engaged in the business of buying, selling and dealing in junk, any person purchasing, gathering, collecting, soliciting or traveling about from place to place procuring junk, and any person operating, carrying on, conducting or maintaining a junk yard or place where junk is gathered together and stored or kept for shipment, sale or transfer. See California Business and Professions Code 21601
  • Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs, unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Business and Professions Code 15

(Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 608, Sec. 3. (AB 2312) Effective January 1, 2015.)

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