2010 Wyoming Statutes
Title 33 - Professions And Occupations
Chapter 18 -junk Dealers

CHAPTER 18 - JUNK DEALERS

 

33-18-101. Definition.

 

Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of buying or selling of second hand, or broken metals, such as copper, brass, lead, zinc, tin, steel, cast iron, rags, rubber, or waste paper, shall be held and hereby are defined to be junk dealers within the meaning of this act.

 

33-18-102. Records; book to be kept.

 

Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the junk business as defined in W.S. 33-18-101, shall keep a book, in which shall be written in ink, at the time of each and every sale, an accurate account and description, in the English language, of all junk metal or rubber goods purchased or sold, and the name and residence of the person selling or buying the same. No entry in such book shall be erased, mutilated or changed.

 

33-18-103. Records; information to be posted.

 

Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the buying and selling of junk metals, rags, rubber, or waste paper as described in W.S. 33-18-101 shall at all times keep posted, conspicuously in the office of their [his] place of business, the description of, and amount of junk articles purchased each day, and the names and addresses of the parties for whom said purchase was made, and also the names and addresses of all to whom sales of junk metals are made.

 

33-18-104. Records; inspection by law enforcement officers.

 

The said book, and the entries therein, shall at all times be open to the inspection of the sheriff of the county and his deputies, or any member of the police force of any city or town, in the county in which said junk dealers do business.

 

33-18-105. Purchase from intoxicated persons.

 

No person, firm or corporation engaged in the buying or selling of junk metals, rubber, rags or paper, shall purchase any articles from any person appearing to be intoxicated, nor from any person known to be a thief, or to have been convicted of larceny, and when any person is found to be the owner of stolen property, which had been so sold, the property shall be returned to the owner thereof without the payment of any money on the part of the owner.

 

33-18-106. Penalty; power of cities and towns not impaired.

 

Every junk dealer who shall be found guilty of a violation of the provisions of this act shall, for the first offense, be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00), nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), or imprisoned in the county jail not more than sixty (60) days, or either or both, in the discretion of the court, and for each subsequent offense of violating any of the provisions of this act of which any such junk dealer shall be found guilty, such junk dealer shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), nor more than three hundred dollars ($300.00), or imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days, or either or both, in the discretion of the court; provided, that this act shall not be construed to in any wise impair the power of cities or incorporated towns in this state to license, tax and regulate any person, persons or corporations now engaged in or hereafter engaging in the buying and selling of second hand metals.