West Virginia Proposes Business License Bill to Help Curb Copper Theft

February 16, 2012

Numerous instances of copper theft at Frontier Communications, the state’s largest telephone company, have prompted state legislatures to consider a bill that would help curb copper theft by requiring scrap metal dealers to obtain a West Virginia business license.

In order to qualify for the West Virginia business license, scrap metal dealers would have to comply with a number of regulations. Eric Eyre details some of the requirements in Charleston Gazette. “Under the bill, scrap dealers must report suspicious metal sellers to the authorities. Dealers would only be able to pay scrap metal sellers with checks, not cash.”

State Senator Herb Snyder introduced this bill by bringing a 1,800-strand copper wire phone cable with him to the Senate last Tuesday.

"This is what they're cutting down, and our citizens are suffering," he told his Senate colleagues, hoisting the heavy cable. "I want to tell the thieves doing this, there's no place in West Virginia for you. Let's run these people out of West Virginia."

The bill will be under discussion by state senators at the next senate meeting.

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