--- title: O.C.G.A. § 10-1-350. Definitions. collection: code id: 10-1-350 cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 10-1-350 (2025) canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-1-350 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-1-350.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-1-350/text source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t10-(v8)-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=c78ce5c1_0#page=16 date: 2025 status: active corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68 license: CC0-1.0 publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-1.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-1-331.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-1-351.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md version: the only printed version in_force: true current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly heading_path: COMMERCE AND TRADE / SELLING AND OTHER TRADE PRACTICES / SECONDARY METALS RECYCLERS extraction_warnings: - dehyphenation_unverified:con-densing - dehyphenation_unverified:wave-guides - dehyphenation_unverified:wave-guides --- # O.C.G.A. § 10-1-350. Definitions. As used in this article, the term: (1) “Aluminum property” means aluminum forms designed to shape concrete. (2) “Burial object” means any product manufactured for or used for identifying or permanently decorating a grave site, including, without limitation, monuments, markers, benches, and vases and any base or foundation on which they rest or are mounted. (3) “Business license” means a business license, an occupational tax certificate, and other document required by a county or municipal corporation and issued by the appropriate agency of such county or municipal corporation to engage in a profession or business. (4) “Coil” means any copper, aluminum, or aluminum-copper condensing coil or evaporation coil including its tubing or rods. The term shall not include coil from a window air-conditioning system, if contained within the system itself, or coil from an automobile condenser. (5) “Copper property” means any copper wire, copper tubing, copper pipe, or any item composed completely of copper. (6) “Copper wire” means any wires, cables, bus bars, or waveguides containing any portion of copper, whether or not coated with insulation. 2(7) “Deliverer” means any individual who takes or transports the regulated metal property to the secondary metals recycler. (8) “Ferrous metals” means any metals containing significant quantities of iron or steel. (9) “Law enforcement officer” means any duly constituted peace officer of the State of Georgia or of any county, municipality, or political subdivision thereof. (10) “Nonferrous metals” means stainless steel beer kegs and metals not containing significant quantities of iron or steel, including, without limitation, copper, brass, aluminum, bronze, lead, zinc, nickel, and alloys thereof. (11) “Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation, joint venture, trust, association, or any other legal entity. (12) “Personal identification card” means a current and unexpired driver’s license or identification card issued by the Department of Driver Services or a similar card issued by another state, a military identification card, or a current work authorization issued by the federal government, which shall contain the individual’s name, address, and photograph. (13) “Purchase transaction” means a transaction in which the secondary metals recycler gives consideration in exchange for regulated metal property. (14) “Registered agent” means an individual who has been listed on a secondary metals recycler registration form at a Georgia sheriff’s office as the affiant and completes and executes the registration form in accordance with Code Section 10-1-359.1. (15) “Regulated metal property” means any item composed primarily of any ferrous metals or nonferrous metals and includes aluminum property, copper property, and catalytic converters but shall not include aluminum beverage containers, used beverage containers, or similar beverage containers. (16) “Secondary metals recycler” means any person who is engaged, from a fixed location or otherwise, in the business in this state of paying compensation for regulated metal property that has served its original economic purpose, whether or not engaged in the business of performing the manufacturing process by which regulated metal property is converted into raw material products consisting of prepared grades and having an existing or potential economic value. (17) “Seller” means the rightful owner of the regulated metal property or the individual authorized by the rightful owner of the regulated metal property to conduct the purchase transaction. (18) “Used communications copper” means utility-grade copper that is commonly used by a lawful provider of telecommunications services for providing telecommunications services, including, without limitation, utility-grade wires or cables, bus bars, and waveguides. (18.1) “Used, detached catalytic converter” means motor vehicle exhaust system parts that are used for controlling the exhaust emissions from motor vehicles and that contain a catalyst metal, but shall not include a catalytic converter that has been tested, certified, and labeled for reuse, in accordance with applicable federal Clean Air Act regulations, as may from time to time be amended, or other applicable federal laws or regulations. (19) “Used utility wire” means any wire or cable containing aluminum or copper, or any ferrous metals or other nonferrous metals, that is commonly used by a utility that provides electric or telecommunications service. ## History Code 1981, § 10-1-350, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 2452, § 1; Ga. L. 2002, p. 415, § 10; Ga. L. 2005, p. 334, § 4-1/HB 501; Ga. L. 2007, p. 650, § 1/SB 203; Ga. L. 2009, p. 731, § 1/SB 82; Ga. L. 2012, p. 112, § 1-1/HB 872; Ga. L. 2015, p. 588, § 1/HB 461; Ga. L. 2023, p. 71, § 1-1/SB 60, effective July 1, 2023; Ga. L. 2025, p. 691, § 1/SB 40, effective July 1, 2025. ## Editor's Notes Ga. L. 2025, p. 691, § 10/SB 40, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part, that the Act shall apply to all transactions occurring on and after July 1, 2025. ## Amendments The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, added paragraph (18.1). See Editor’s notes for applicability. ## U.s. Code. The federal Clean Air Act, referred to in this Code section, is codified at 42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq.