This chapter is an exercise of the city’s police power to promote, through regulation of secondary metals recyclers, the recovery of stolen property. This chapter provides licensing and recordkeeping requirements and enforcement procedures that will enable the police department to identify and recover public and private property composed of certain metals that may have been illegally appropriated. (Ord. Nos. 20260; 22958; 26537; 27202; 27249)
In this chapter:
(1) CASH TRANSACTION CARD means a card issued to a seller by a secondary metals recycler in compliance with Section 40B-6(f) of this chapter that allows a secondary metals recycler, at the time of purchase, to give consideration in the form of cash or a debit card to a seller in a purchase transaction for regulated metal property.
(2) CATALYTIC CONVERTER means a device used to reduce the toxicity of emissions from an internal combustion engine through the use of a catalyst (typically a platinum- iridium catalyst) that converts the toxic combustion by-products into less toxic gases or products. A catalytic converter includes any material removed from a catalytic converter.
(3) CHECK means a check, draft, or other negotiable or nonnegotiable order of withdrawal that is drawn against funds held by a financial institution.
(4) CHIEF means the chief of police for the city of Dallas or a designated representative.
(5) DEBIT CARD means a card issued by a bank that combines the functions of an automatic teller machine (ATM) card and checks. A debit card can be used to withdraw cash at a bank like an ATM card and can also be used at stores to pay for goods and services in place of a check. Unlike a credit card, a debit card automatically withdraws money from a checking account at the time of the transaction.
(6) FERROUS METAL means a metal that contains significant quantities of iron or steel.
(7) HOLD NOTICE means written notification by the chief to a secondary metals recycler stating that the secondary metals recycler may not sell, redeem, or dispose of certain regulated metal property that the chief has reasonable cause to believe has been stolen.
(8) LICENSEE means a person in whose name a license has been issued under this chapter or a person listed as an applicant on the application for a license.
(9) NONFERROUS METAL means a metal that does not contain significant quantities of iron or steel, including, but not limited to, copper, brass, aluminum, bronze, lead, zinc, nickel, and their alloys.
(10) PERSON means an individual, partnership, corporation, joint venture, trust, association, and any other legal entity.
(11) PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION CERTIFICATE means a personal identification card issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety under Chapter 521, Subchapter E of the Texas Transportation Code, as amended, or a similar card or certificate issued by another state.
(12) PURCHASE TRANSACTION means a transaction in which a secondary metals recycler gives consideration, or agrees to give consideration, in exchange for regulated metal property.
(13) REGULATED METAL PROPERTY means any item composed in whole or in part of any ferrous or nonferrous metal, other than an item composed in whole of tin.
(14) SECONDARY METALS RECYCLER means any person who:
(A) is engaged in the business of purchasing, collecting, or soliciting regulated metal property; or
(B) operates or maintains a facility where regulated metal property is purchased or kept for shipment, sale, transfer, or salvage.
(15) SELLER means any person who, in a purchase transaction, receives consideration from a secondary metals recycler in exchange for regulated metal property.
(16) THUMBPRINT IMPRESSION means an intentional recording of the friction ridge detail on the volar pads of the thumb. (Ord. Nos. 20260; 22958; 26537; 27202; 27249; 32726)
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