2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - .250   Register containing name of person from whom copper wire or cable is purchased, required of dealers in junk or metals, vendors and collectors of used articles -- Data register to contain -- Inspection of register -- Reports to sheriff or police department.

365.250 Register containing name of person from whom copper wire or cable is purchased, required of dealers in junk or metals, vendors and collectors of used articles -- Data register to contain -- Inspection of register -- Reports to sheriff or police department. (1) Every dealer in junk or metals, dealer in secondhand articles, vendor of bottles or rags, or collector of or dealer in articles found in ashes, garbage or other refuse, whether such dealers, collectors or vendors have established places of business or operate a business of an itinerant nature, shall keep a register, which shall contain the name of the persons from whom any copper wire or cable is purchased, whatever may be the condition or length of such copper wire or cable, the residence or place of business of such persons and a full description of each purchase including the quantity by weight thereof. Each of such dealers, collectors or vendors shall permit any peace officer to inspect the register at any reasonable time and shall report to the sheriff of the county in which any purchase is made and to the sheriff of the county in which his business is located all of such purchases within twenty- four (24) hours thereafter; the report shall contain all of the information required to be maintained in the register provided for herein. (2) Failure to maintain the register or to report to the sheriff as required in subsection (1) shall be prima facie evidence that the person receiving copper wire or cable not registered or reported, received it knowing it to be stolen in violation of KRS 514.110. (3) In the event the purchase is made or the business is located in a city of the first or second class the reports required hereby shall be made to the police departments of such cities instead of the respective sheriffs. Effective: July 15, 1980 History: Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 188, sec. 282, effective July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 152, sec. 152. -- Created 1956 Ky. Acts ch. 131, sec. 1, effective May 18, 1956.