Public Act 0181 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB0805 Enrolled LRB094 03654 RXD 33659 b

Public Act 094-0181

AN ACT concerning business.

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

Section 5. The Copper Purchase Registration Law is amended by changing Sections 3, 5, and 6 as follows:

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

Sec. 3. Except as provided in Section 5 of this Act every copper dealer in this State shall enter in triplicate on forms provided by the Department of State Police or such department as may succeed to its functions, for each purchase of copper consisting of 50 pounds or more the following information:

1. The name and address of the copper dealer;

2. The date and place of each purchase;

3. The name and address of the person or persons from whom the copper was purchased;

4. The motor vehicle license number of the vehicle or conveyance on which the copper was delivered to the copper dealer;

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

A One copy of the completed form shall be kept in a separate book or register by the copper dealer and shall be retained for a period of 2 years one year. 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. Within 3 days from the day of purchase one copy of the completed form shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the copper was purchased and one copy shall be filed with, or mailed to, the Department of State Police, or such department as may succeed to its functions.

(Source: P.A. 84-25.)

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

Sec. 5. The provisions of Section Sections 3 and 4 of this Act do not apply to electrical contractors, to agencies or instrumentalities of the State of Illinois or of the United States, to common carriers or to purchases from persons, firms or corporations regularly engaged in the business of manufacturing copper, the business of selling copper at retail or wholesale, in the business of razing, demolishing, destroying or removing buildings, to the purchase of one copper 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 copper dealer with a bill of sale or other written evidence of title to the copper.

(Source: P.A. 76-1476.)

(815 ILCS 325/6) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 326)

Sec. 6. The Department of State Police, or such department as may succeed to its functions, shall prepare the forms provided for in Section 3 of this Act and , shall make an electronic copy a reasonable supply of the form forms available to the public on its website at the office of the county clerk of each county and shall provide the forms to any individual upon request.

(Source: P.A. 84-25.)

(815 ILCS 325/4 rep.)

Section 10. The Copper Purchase Registration Law is amended by repealing Section 4.

Effective Date: 1/1/2006