2006 Michigan Compiled Laws - Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.403 Second hand or junk dealer; definitions.

Sec. 3.

As used in this act:

(a) "Automotive recycler" means a person who engages in business primarily for the purpose of selling retail salvage vehicle parts and secondarily for the purpose of selling retail salvage motor vehicles or manufacturing or selling a product of gradable scrap metal or a person employed as a salvage vehicle agent as that term is defined in section 56c of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.56c.

(b) "Internet drop-off store" means a person, corporation, or firm that contracts with other persons, corporations, or firms to offer its personal property or other valuable thing for sale, purchase, consignment, or trade through means of an internet website and meets the conditions described in section 1(3).

(c) "Local law enforcement agency" means the police agency of the city, village, or township, or if none, the county sheriff of the county in which the internet drop-off store conducts business.

(d) "Scrap processor" means a person, utilizing machinery and equipment and operating from a fixed location, whose principal business is the processing and manufacturing of iron, steel, nonferrous metals, paper, plastic, or glass, into prepared grades of products suitable for consumption by recycling mills and foundries.

(e) "Second hand dealer" or "junk dealer" means any person, corporation, or member or members of a copartnership or firm whose principal business is that of purchasing, selling, exchanging, storing, or receiving second hand articles of any kind, cast iron, old iron, old steel, tool steel, aluminum, copper, brass, lead pipe or tools, lighting and plumbing fixtures. Second hand dealer or junk dealer does not include a scrap processor or an automotive recycler.

History: 1917, Act 350, Imd. Eff. May 10, 1917 ;-- CL 1929, 9760 ;-- Am. 1939, Act 15, Eff. Sept. 29, 1939 ;-- CL 1948, 445.403 ;-- Am. 2006, Act 294, Imd. Eff. July 20, 2006