Full Text of HB0696 96th General Assembly
HB0696 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 HB0696
Introduced 2/6/2009, by Rep. Daniel V. Beiser SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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815 ILCS 325/3 |
from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 323 |
815 ILCS 325/5 |
from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 325 |
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Amends the Recyclable Metal Purchase Registration Law. Requires a recyclable metal dealer to obtain and record certain information for each transaction involving the purchase of metal street signs, including a declaration, signed and dated, by the person or persons from whom the metal street signs were purchased which states that the property subject to the transaction is not stolen property. Contains a provision regarding exemptions, defines the term "metal street sign", and makes other changes. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning business.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Recyclable Metal Purchase Registration Law | 5 |
| is amended by changing Sections 3 and 5 as follows:
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| (815 ILCS 325/3) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 323)
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| Sec. 3. Records of purchases. Except as provided in Section | 8 |
| 5 of this Act every recyclable metal dealer in this
State shall | 9 |
| enter on forms provided by the Department of State
Police or | 10 |
| such department as may succeed to its functions, for each
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| purchase of recyclable metal valued at $100 or more and for | 12 |
| each transaction involving the purchase of metal street signs | 13 |
| the following
information:
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| 1. The name and address of the recyclable metal dealer;
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| 2. The date and place of each purchase;
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| 3. The name and address of the person or persons from | 17 |
| whom the recyclable metal
or metal street signs were was | 18 |
| purchased, which shall be verified from a valid driver's | 19 |
| license or State Identification Card. The recyclable metal | 20 |
| dealer shall make and record a photocopy or electronic scan | 21 |
| of the driver's license or State Identification Card. If | 22 |
| the person delivering the recyclable metal or metal street | 23 |
| signs does not have a valid driver's license or State |
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| Identification Card, the recyclable metal dealer shall not | 2 |
| complete the transaction;
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| 4. The motor vehicle license number and state of | 4 |
| issuance of the motor vehicle license number of the vehicle | 5 |
| or conveyance on
which the recyclable metal was delivered | 6 |
| to the recyclable metal dealer;
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| 5. A description of the recyclable metal or metal | 8 |
| street signs purchased, including the weight and
whether it | 9 |
| consists of bars, cable, ingots, rods, tubing, wire, wire
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| scraps, clamps, connectors, other appurtenances, or some | 11 |
| combination
thereof ; and .
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| 6. A declaration signed and dated by the person or | 13 |
| persons from whom the recyclable metal or metal street | 14 |
| signs were purchased which states the following: | 15 |
| "I, the undersigned, affirm under penalty of law | 16 |
| that the property that is subject to this transaction | 17 |
| is not to the best of my knowledge stolen property." | 18 |
| For purposes of this Section, "metal street sign" means any | 19 |
| sign displaying the name of the street on which it is located | 20 |
| and all signs, signals, markings, and other devices placed or | 21 |
| erected by authority of a public body or official having | 22 |
| jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning, or | 23 |
| guiding traffic. | 24 |
| A copy of the completed form shall be kept in a separate | 25 |
| book or
register by the recyclable metal dealer and shall be | 26 |
| retained for a period of 2 years. Such book or register shall |
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| be made available for inspection by any
law enforcement | 2 |
| official or the representatives of common carriers and
persons, | 3 |
| firms, corporations or municipal corporations engaged in | 4 |
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the generation, transmission or distribution of | 5 |
| electric energy or engaged
in telephone, telegraph or other | 6 |
| communications, at any time.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-181, eff. 1-1-06; 95-979, eff. 1-2-09.)
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| (815 ILCS 325/5) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 325)
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| Sec. 5. Exemptions. The provisions of Section 3 of this Act | 10 |
| do not apply to
electrical contractors, to agencies or | 11 |
| instrumentalities of the State of
Illinois or of the United | 12 |
| States, to units of local government, their agents or | 13 |
| representatives, that have contracted with the recyclable | 14 |
| metal dealer in the disposal of its metal street signs, to | 15 |
| common carriers or to purchases from
persons, firms or | 16 |
| corporations regularly engaged in the business of
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| manufacturing recyclable metal, the business of selling | 18 |
| recyclable metal at retail or
wholesale, in the business of | 19 |
| razing, demolishing, destroying or removing
buildings, to the | 20 |
| purchase of one recyclable metal dealer from another or the
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| purchase from persons, firms or corporations engaged in either | 22 |
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generation, transmission or distribution of electric | 23 |
| energy or in
telephone, telegraph and other communications if | 24 |
| such common carriers,
persons, firms or corporations at the | 25 |
| time of the purchase provide the recyclable metal
dealer with a |
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| bill of sale or other written evidence of title to the | 2 |
| recyclable metal.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-181, eff. 1-1-06; 95-979, eff. 1-2-09.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 5 |
| becoming law.
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