Chapter 815 - Business Transactions - Copper Purchase Registration Law

    (815 ILCS 325/1) (from Ch.121 1/2, par. 321)
    Sec. 1.
    This Act is known and may be cited as the "Copper Purchase Registration Law".
(Source: P. A. 76-1476.)

    (815 ILCS 325/2) (from Ch.121 1/2, par. 322)
    Sec. 2.
    When used in this Act:
    "Copper" means any copper, copper alloy or brass bars, cable, ingots, rods, tubing, wire, wire scraps, clamps, connectors or other appurtenances utilized or that can be utilized by common carriers or by persons, firms, corporations or municipal corporations engaged in either the generation, transmission or distribution of electric energy or in telephone, telegraph or other communications;
    "Copper dealer" means any individual, firm, corporation or partnership engaged in the business of purchasing and reselling copper either at a permanently established place of business or in connection with a business of an itinerant nature, including junk shops, junk yards, junk stores, auto wreckers, scrap metal dealers or processors, salvage yards, collectors of or dealers in junk and junk carts or trucks.
(Source: P. A. 76-1476.)

    (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 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 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. 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.)

(815 ILCS 325/4)
Sec. 4. (Repealed).
(Source: P.A. 76-1476. Repealed by P.A. 94-181, eff. 1-1-06.)

(815 ILCS 325/5) (from Ch.121 1/2, par. 325)
Sec. 5. 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 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. 94-181, eff. 1-1-06.)

(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 of the form available to the public on its website.
(Source: P.A. 94-181, eff. 1-1-06.)

(815 ILCS 325/7) (from Ch.121 1/2, par. 327)
Sec. 7. This Act shall not apply in any municipality which provides for the registration of copper purchased by resolution, ordinance or regulation which substantially complies with the substantive provisions of this Act or any rule or regulation hereunder. The fact of such nonapplication shall be evidenced by a certificate of exemption issued by the Department of State Police or such department as may succeed to its functions, if it finds that a municipal resolution, ordinance or regulation meeting such requirements is being enforced. Such certificate of exemption shall be available for inspection in the office of the municipal clerk. This Act does not apply in municipalities with populations of 1,000,000 or over.
(Source: P.A. 84-25.)

    (815 ILCS 325/8) (from Ch.121 1/2, par. 328)
    Sec. 8.
    Any copper dealer who knowingly fails to comply with this Act is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. Each day that any copper dealer so fails to comply shall constitute a separate offense.
(Source: P. A. 77-2262.)