Terms Used In Indiana Code 25-37.5-1-5

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • purchase: means acquiring a valuable metal product for a consideration, but does not include purchases between scrap metal processing facilities (as defined in IC 8-23-1-36). See Indiana Code 25-37.5-1-1
  • used parts dealer: has the meaning set forth in IC 9-13-2-195. See Indiana Code 25-37.5-1-0.8
  • valuable metal: means any product made of metal that readily may be resold. See Indiana Code 25-37.5-1-1
  • valuable metal dealer: means any individual, firm, corporation, limited liability company, or partnership engaged in the business of purchasing and reselling valuable metal either at a permanently established place of business or in connection with a business of an itinerant nature, including junk shops, junk yards, junk stores, auto wreckers, scrap metal dealers or processors, salvage yards, collectors of or dealers in junk, and junk cars or trucks. See Indiana Code 25-37.5-1-1
   Sec. 5. The provisions of sections 2 and 3 of this chapter do not apply to purchases from persons, firms, limited liability companies, or corporations regularly engaged in the business of manufacturing valuable metals, the business of selling valuable metals at retail or wholesale, to the purchase of one valuable metal dealer from another or the purchase from persons, firms, limited liability companies, or corporations engaged in either the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy or in telephone, telegraph, and other communications if such persons, firms, limited liability companies, or corporations at the time of purchase provide the valuable metal dealer with a bill of sale or other written evidence of title to the valuable metal. This section does not apply to a used parts dealer.

Formerly: Acts 1971, P.L.380, SEC.1; Acts 1972, P.L.11, SEC.11. As amended by P.L.8-1993, SEC.404; P.L.224-2013, SEC.8; P.L.20-2022, SEC.17.