STATE OF NEW YORK
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1838
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring scrap
processors to record certain information
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 69-g of the general business law, as amended by
2 chapter 302 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 69-g. Records. 1. Such scrap processor shall record (i) each
4 purchase of any pig or pigs of metal, bronze or brass castings or parts
5 thereof, sprues or gates or parts thereof, utility wire or brass car
6 journals, or of metal beer kegs, and (ii) each purchase of iron, steel
7 and/or nonferrous scrap for a price of fifty dollars or more, and
8 preserve such record for a period of three years; which record shall
9 show the date of purchase, name of seller, his residence address by
10 street, number, city, village or town, the license plate number of the
11 motor vehicle driven by the seller at the time of transaction, the driv-
12 er's license number or information from a government issued photographic
13 identification card, if any, of such person, or by such description as
14 will reasonably locate the seller, the type and quantity of such
15 purchase; and the scrap processor shall cause such record to be signed
16 by the seller or his agent. It shall be unlawful for any seller to
17 refuse to furnish such information or to furnish incorrect or incomplete
18 information. Such scrap processor shall also make and retain a copy of
19 the government issued photographic identification card used to verify
20 the identity of the person from whom the scrap metal was purchased and
21 shall retain this copy in a separate book, register or electronic
22 archive for two years from the date of purchase.
23 2. Such records shall be available for inspection by the police
24 department of the state or the municipality in which the establishment
25 is located.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00744-01-7
