A secondhand metal dealer shall not process or permit to be removed from the dealer's premises regulated material until at least twenty-four hours have elapsed since the dealer acquired the regulated material. History: Laws 2008, ch. 29, § 11; 2012, ch. 29, § 10; 2012, ch. 33, § 10. ANNOTATIONSThe 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, reduced the waiting period for disposal of regulated material to twenty-four hours and after 'regulated material until', deleted 'the fifth business day after the date on which' and added 'at least twenty-four hours have elapsed since'. Laws 2012, ch. 29, § 10 and Laws 2012, ch. 33, § 10 enacted identical amendments to this section. The section was set out as amended by Laws 2012, ch. 33, § 10. See 12-1-8 NMSA 1978.
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