Public Act 0507 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB0696 Enrolled LRB096 05719 KTG 15786 b

Public Act 096-0507

AN ACT concerning business.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Recyclable Metal Purchase Registration Law is amended by changing Sections 3 and 5 as follows:

(815 ILCS 325/3) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 323)

Sec. 3. Records of purchases. Except as provided in Section 5 of this Act every recyclable metal dealer in this State shall enter on forms provided by the Department of State Police or such department as may succeed to its functions, for each purchase of recyclable metal valued at $100 or more and for each transaction involving the purchase of metal street signs the following information:

1. The name and address of the recyclable metal dealer;

2. The date and place of each purchase;

3. The name and address of the person or persons from whom the recyclable metal or metal street signs were was purchased, which shall be verified from a valid driver's license or State Identification Card. The recyclable metal dealer shall make and record a photocopy or electronic scan of the driver's license or State Identification Card. If the person delivering the recyclable metal or metal street signs does not have a valid driver's license or State Identification Card, the recyclable metal dealer shall not complete the transaction;

4. The motor vehicle license number and state of issuance of the motor vehicle license number of the vehicle or conveyance on which the recyclable metal was delivered to the recyclable metal dealer;

5. A description of the recyclable metal or metal street signs purchased, including the weight and whether it consists of bars, cable, ingots, rods, tubing, wire, wire scraps, clamps, connectors, other appurtenances, or some combination thereof; and .

6. A declaration signed and dated by the person or persons from whom the recyclable metal or metal street signs were purchased which states the following:

"I, the undersigned, affirm under penalty of law that the property that is subject to this transaction is not to the best of my knowledge stolen property."

For purposes of this Section, "metal street sign" means any sign displaying the name of the street on which it is located and all signs, signals, markings, and other devices placed or erected by authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic.

A copy of the completed form shall be kept in a separate book or register by the recyclable metal dealer and shall be retained for a period of 2 years. Such book or register shall be made available for inspection by any law enforcement official or the representatives of common carriers and persons, firms, corporations or municipal corporations engaged in either the generation, transmission or distribution of electric energy or engaged in telephone, telegraph or other communications, at any time.

(Source: P.A. 94-181, eff. 1-1-06; 95-979, eff. 1-2-09.)

(815 ILCS 325/5) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 325)

Sec. 5. Exemptions. The provisions of Section 3 of this Act do not apply to electrical contractors, to agencies or instrumentalities of the State of Illinois or of the United States, to units of local government, their agents or representatives, that have contracted with the recyclable metal dealer in the disposal of its metal street signs, to common carriers or to purchases from persons, firms or corporations regularly engaged in the business of manufacturing recyclable metal, the business of selling recyclable metal at retail or wholesale, in the business of razing, demolishing, destroying or removing buildings, to the purchase of one recyclable metal dealer from another or the purchase from persons, firms or corporations engaged in either the generation, transmission or distribution of electric energy or in telephone, telegraph and other communications if such common carriers, persons, firms or corporations at the time of the purchase provide the recyclable metal dealer with a bill of sale or other written evidence of title to the recyclable metal.

(Source: P.A. 94-181, eff. 1-1-06; 95-979, eff. 1-2-09.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.