California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 3 - Junk

• Section 21600.
  As used in this article, “junk” means any and all secondhand and used machinery and all ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals and alloys, including any...
• Section 21601.
  As used in this article, “junk dealer” includes any person engaged in the business of buying, selling and dealing in junk, any person purchasing, gathering,...
• Section 21602.
  As used in this article, “junk yard” includes any yard, plot, space, inclosure, building or any other place where junk is collected, stored, gathered together...
• Section 21603.
  This article shall not apply to any of the following:(a) Secondhand furniture merchants.(b) Pawnbrokers.(c) Secondhand car dealers or merchants in connection with automobile and motor vehicle sales agencies...
• Section 21604.
  Except as otherwise provided in this article, this article does not apply to:(a) Any person who buys or sells junk acquired in the conduct of any...
• Section 21605.
  (a) Every junk dealer and every recycler in this state is hereby required to keep a written record of all sales and purchases made in the...
• Section 21606.
  (a) Every junk dealer and every recycler shall set out in the written record required by this article all of the following:(1) The place and date of...
• Section 21606.5.
  Every junk dealer or recycler shall, during normal business hours, allow periodic inspection of any premises maintained and any junk thereon for the purpose of...
• Section 21607.
  Every junk dealer and recycler shall preserve the written record required by this article for at least two years after making the final entry of...
• Section 21608.
  (a) A junk dealer or recycler who fails in any respect to keep the written record required by this article, or to set out in that...
• Section 21608.3.
  (a) Any unauthorized disclosure of personal identification information collected from a seller by a junk dealer or recycler is prohibited, and any such disclosure shall render...
• Section 21608.5.
  (a) A junk dealer or recycler in this state shall not provide payment for nonferrous material unless, in addition to meeting the written record requirements of...
• Section 21608.6.
  (a) A junk dealer or recycler, as defined in subdivision (f), in this state shall not provide payment for newspaper, as defined in Section 538c of...
• Section 21608.7.
  (a) A junk dealer or recycler shall request to receive theft alert notifications regarding the theft of commodity metals, including, but not limited to, ferrous metal,...
• Section 21609.
  (a) Whenever a peace officer has probable cause to believe that property in the possession of a junk dealer or recycler is stolen, in lieu of...
• Section 21609.1.
  (a) No junk dealer or recycler shall possess any reasonably recognizable, disassembled, or inoperative fire hydrant or fire department connection, including, but not limited to, reasonably...
• Section 21609.5.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no junk dealer or recycler may purchase or receive refillable stainless steel or aluminum alloy beer kegs marked with...
• Section 21609.7.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no junk dealer or recycler may purchase or receive bulk merchandise pallets marked with an indicia of ownership from...
• Section 21610.
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the term “core recycler” means a person or business, including a recycler or junk dealer, that buys used individual...

Last modified: October 22, 2018