Criminal Offenses Related to Critical Infrastructure Metals

     The bill defines critical infrastructure related to commodity metals material and adds several different criminal offenses related to the sale of, possession of, and failure to report stolen critical infrastructure material.

     The bill prohibits an owner, keeper, or proprietor (owner) of a junk shop, junk store, salvage yard, or junk cart or other vehicle and every collector of or dealer in junk, salvage, or other secondhand property who buys a commodity metal that was part of critical infrastructure critical infrastructure material (buyer) from paying cash for the commodity metal critical infrastructure material unless the seller is paid by means of any process in which a picture of the seller is taken.

     The bill prohibits a buyer from possessing a commodity metal that was part of critical infrastructure critical infrastructure material without a certification an affidavit from the seller or donator of the commodity metal. A buyer who unknowingly takes possession of commodity metals from critical infrastructure material as part of a load of otherwise non-commodity metals without a written certification noncritical infrastructure materials with an affidavit stating they can transfer the noncritical infrastructure material has a duty to notify the appropriate law enforcement agency or municipal code enforcement agency.

     An owner of a junk shop, junk store, salvage yard, or junk cart must make their book or register available to a law enforcement agency or municipal code enforcement agency upon request.

      The bill modifies existing criminal penalties related to the theft of commodity metals.

(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)
(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)