Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1972 – Daily report of entries
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1972
- Operator: means any person employed in responsible charge of operating all or any portion of a scrap metal recycling facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1962
- Scrap metal: means metal materials which are purchased for resale to be recycled, including but not limited to ferrous materials, catalytic converters, auto hulks, copper, copper wire, copper alloy, bronze, zinc, aluminum other than in the form of cans, stainless steel, nickel alloys, or brass, whether in the form of bars, cable, ingots, rods, tubing, wire, wire scraps, clamps or connectors, railroad track materials, water utility materials, and used building components. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1962
A.(1) Every operator licensed pursuant to this Chapter shall produce and deliver to the chief of police of the city or town or to the sheriff of the parish in which he is doing business, every day before the hour of twelve noon, a legible and correct copy of the entries in the book mentioned in La. Rev. Stat. 37:1967 during the previous day. The means for providing the transactional information required under this Section shall be by electronic transmission.
(2) The appropriate law enforcement official may, for purposes of an investigation of a crime relating to a particular scrap metal transaction, request the operator to mail or fax the official the personally identifiable information relating to the transaction under investigation. The operator shall deliver the personally identifiable information relating to the identified transaction to the appropriate law enforcement official within twenty-four hours of the request.
B. In addition to the daily report required in Subsection A of this Section, every operator licensed pursuant to this Chapter shall, every day before the hour of twelve noon, transmit the information contained in the entries in the book required by La. Rev. Stat. 37:1967(B) during the previous day to an electronic database accessible by law enforcement.
C. The operator shall have the responsibility of tendering the information provided for in Subsections A and B of this Section regardless of its use or nonuse by the chief of police in the city or town in which he is doing business or, alternatively, to the sheriff of the parish in which he is doing business. The tender of this information is a courtesy mandated by state law and which provides a benefit to the general public. The chief of police or sheriff shall not be mandated to take any particular action concerning the information tendered.
Acts 2012, No. 827, §1, eff. June 14, 2012.