Each purchase of thirty five (35) pounds or more of copper or copper alloy utilized by persons, firms, corporations or municipal corporations engaged in the transmission and distribution of electric energy, or engaged in telephone, telegraph or other communications shall be held separate and apart so that such copper and copper alloy shall be readily identifiable from all other purchases for a period of not less than ten (10) days from the date of purchase of such copper or copper alloy, during which period the purchaser shall not change the form of said copper or copper alloy and shall permit any law enforcement officer or the representatives of persons, firms, corporations or municipal corporations to make inspection of such copper material during said ten (10) day holding period; provided, however, that all such purchases made from persons, firms, corporations or municipal corporations who construct, operate, maintain or sell electric distribution and transmission communications facilities, or produce scrap copper material in the normal course of business or the sale of copper material by one licensed junk dealer or salvage dealer to another are not subject to said ten (10) day holding period; but there shall be required from such persons, firms, corporations or municipal corporations a bill of sale or other written evidence of title of such purchases. (Ord. 1920 § 1, 2008)