New Scrap Law legal challenge

It is sad that laws are being created to stop scrapping. I understand that the negative scrappers give all of us a bad name. And now everyone will suffer. Large companies will lose out from the small guys, the small guys will either bite the bullet or give up. If little guys give up landfills and just about any area around will see an increase in scrap that isn't worth the time of the big dawgs. Scrappers have a symbiosis relation with the world. If you limit us a lot of this will go out of whack. (Mainly just venting against these lawmakers)

I haven't been watching the news and didn't hear it passed.

Here's something to think about - a $400 fee for an over-25000 gross license? I though we were trying to legislate the thieves? What scrap thief is doing 25k a year?

Typical city nonsense, take anything that has potential do good (I'm saying that loosely) and make money from it...

This is a new twist:

The city's rules require permits, background checks, licensing and additional record keeping. Much of Garden Street's metal is shipped in from other states and a company lawyer says sellers have said they will stop doing business.

So even legitimate out of state companies need a license? Ridiculous!

I'm on record here as supporting licenses in theory, but I'm afraid the actual implementation is going to be a nightmare.

Even used car dealers that do half a million gross revenue don't have these kinds of fees.

This is a bad idea but it would remove some competition and because they would be getting less metal they would be forced to offer more for the metal.

Reminds me of when the flood hit here in Pa around wilkes-barre, duryea, etc. The police commisioner or mayor, whatever, came up with a deal. You need 500 permit to run scrap from the flood zone of Duryea out or you would be arrested, fined, etc. I literally picked up from a reg customer some stuff. I was stopped 5 mins from the place and told to drop the **** off the truck, even the stuff I already had, or I would be arrested, etc. I literally got mouthy and almost got disorderly conduct..lol. I had all proof I needed where it came from and that it was not stolen, which is what they were trying to prevent. So I dropped it off the truck at the curb, went for a coffee. Came back 15 mins loaded real quick and got the hell out of their never to return yet. My customers now bring the stuff to me from there just in case the law still stands right at the city line.

I personally think greed and the city making money off the flood scrap was motive, not to prevent theft as they said.

Did you know that there are 10 scrap yards in Cincinnati, and only 5 of them are licensed by the city to be operate? That's a 50% failure rate on the part of the city inspectors. How well do you think they'll manage thousands of new licensees?

Maybe every one who's upset should dump some scrap at the next city council meeting. "Here, you guys deal with it" LOL

Run, Kate, run!

Originally Posted by Scrapette

probably get tased.

how shocking!