Summary of New Georgia Law

 EVERYTHING EXCEPT ALUMINUM CANS WILL BE PAID BY CHECK

Special Purchase Transactions:

1. AIR CONDITIONING UNIT COILS may ONLY be purchased from the following persons:

• A Licensed Contractor who provides a valid contractor's license
• Electrical Contractors
• Plumbers
• Conditioned Air Contractors
• Low-Voltage Contractors
• Utility Contractors
• Certain Sellers who have verifiable documentation, such as a receipt or work order, indicating that the coils are the result of the replacement by a licensed contractor of the condenser coils or of a heating or AC system

2. BURNED COPPER WIRE may only be purchased from:

• A Licensed Contractor who provides a valid contractor's license
• Certain Sellers who have a copy of a police report showing that the seller's property was involved in a fire

3. BURIAL OBJECTS may only be purchased from:

• Licensed Funeral Director
• Licensed Cemetery Owner
• Licensed Burial Object Manufacturer/Distributor
• Certain Sellers who have verifiable documentation, such as a receipt from or contract with a licensed Funeral Director, Licensed Cemetery Owner, or Licensed Burial Object Manufacturer/Distributor, evidencing that such seller is the rightful owner of the burial object.

Exempt Transactions:

Purchases of Regulated Metal Property from the following Persons are exempt from the restrictions on the purchase of Regulated Metal Property under the Regulated Metals Recycling Law:

• Manufacturing, industrial, or other commercial vendors that generate or sell Regulated Metal Property in the ordinary course of their business with the exception of secondary metal recyclers (the “business-to-business exception”)
  NOTE: (Transactions between Georgia Secondary Metals Recyclers are not exempt transactions under the “business-to-business” exception.)
• Non-profit groups
• Law Enforcement Officers acting in their official capacity
• Bankruptcy trustee, executor administrator or receiver
• Public official acting under judicial process or authority
• Sale on the execution of any process issued by a court

Acceptable Identification:

• U.S. issued Driver's License or ID Card
• Military ID
• Work Permit from the Federal Government

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