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Metal recycler says new legislation 'ludicrous': law takes effect Friday.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 28-JUL-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Walter Fleishhacker is not taking lightly what he considers bad legislation. The owner of Northeast Metal Processors took out a half-page advertisement several days in a Tupelo newspaper to show his disdain for what is known among scrap metal dealers as Senate Bill 2006.

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The buyer of scrap metals in Plantersville (southeast Lee County) will cease purchasing the targeted metals from individuals July 31.

"This is ludicrous," Fleishhacker says of the law set to go into effect August l.

Senate Bill 2006 prohibits scrap-metal dealers buying copper, brass and other metal items from individual sellers under 18 and puts numerous other restrictions on the sale of those metals, popular with thieves during these days of high prices paid for...

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