Section 51-35-03 - Exemptions1. Section 51-35-02 does not apply to: a. Purchases from another scrap metal dealer who regularly conducts scrap metal business in this state.b. Purchases from government agencies.c. Purchases of scrap metal, excluding detached used catalytic converters, from persons regularly engaged in the business of manufacturing metals or regularly engaged in the business of generating and selling metals at wholesale, including scrap processing or manufacturing that produces byproducts for scrap.d. Purchases from a person with a business registered with the secretary of state which is regularly engaged in the business of manufacturing catalytic converters or vehicles, or regularly engaged in the business of generating detached used catalytic converters in the ordinary course of the seller's business.e. Purchases of scrap metal, excluding detached used catalytic converters, from persons regularly engaged in the generation or transmission of electricity, or in telephone, telegraph, or cable communications, if the person provides the scrap metal dealer with a bill of sale or other written evidence of ownership of the scrap metal purchased from the person.2. Excluding a detached used catalytic converter, section 51-35-02 and section 51-35-05 do not apply to the purchase, trade, or barter of scrap metal, between an owner or agent of a residential, commercial, or agricultural property and another person, for the purpose of removing scrap metal, from the owner or agent's residential, commercial, or agricultural property. This subsection applies only to the initial transaction between the owner or agent and the person removing the scrap metal, and does not apply to a subsequent sale of the same scrap metal.Amended by S.L. 2023 , ch. 449( SB 2299 ), § 3, eff. 8/1/2023.Added by S.L. 2013 , ch. 390( SB 2151 ), § 3, eff. 5/1/2013.