April 15, 2008, Introduced by Senator KAHN and referred to the Committee on Economic Development and Regulatory Reform.
A bill to amend 1917 PA 350, entitled
"An act to regulate and license second hand dealers and junk
dealers; and to prescribe penalties for the violation of the
provisions of this act,"
by amending section 3 (MCL 445.403), as amended by 2006 PA 675.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 3. As used in this act:
(a) "Automotive recycler" means a person who engages in
business primarily for the purpose of selling retail salvage
vehicle parts and secondarily for the purpose of selling retail
salvage motor vehicles or manufacturing or selling a product of
gradable scrap metal or a person employed as a salvage vehicle
agent as that term is defined in section 56c of the Michigan
vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.56c.
(b) "Industrial scrap" means materials that are a direct
product or by-product of any form of manufacturing, shaping, or
cutting process from a person, company, corporation, copartnership,
or firm whose principal business is the manufacturing, shaping, or
cutting of materials at a fixed place of business.
(c) "Internet drop-off store" means a person, corporation, or
firm that contracts with other persons, corporations, or firms to
offer its personal property or other valuable thing for sale,
purchase, consignment, or trade through means of an internet
website and meets the conditions described in section 1(3).
(d) "Local law enforcement agency" means the police agency of
the city, village, or township, or if none, the county sheriff of
the county in which the internet drop-off store conducts business.
(e) "Scrap processor" means a person, utilizing machinery and
equipment and operating from a fixed location, whose principal
business is the processing and manufacturing of iron, steel,
nonferrous metals, paper, plastic, or glass, into prepared grades
of products suitable for consumption by recycling mills, foundries,
and other scrap processors.
(f) "Second hand dealer" or "junk dealer" means any person,
corporation, or member or members of a copartnership or firm whose
principal business is that of purchasing, selling, exchanging,
storing, or receiving second hand articles of any kind, scrap
metals, cast iron, old iron, old steel, tool steel, aluminum,
copper, brass, lead pipe or tools, or lighting and plumbing
fixtures. Second hand dealer or junk dealer includes a scrap
processor
but does not include a scrap
processor, an automotive
recycler , or a junkyard that deals principally in industrial
scrap
and is licensed by a city, village, or county.