Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 647 - Dealers in Junk and Secondhand Materials; Scrap Metal Processors
NRS 647.017 - "Scrap metal" defined.

1. "Scrap metal" means:
(a) Nonferrous metals, scrap iron, stainless steel or other material or equipment which consists in whole or in part of metal and which is used in construction, agricultural operations, electrical power generation, transmission or distribution, cable, broadband or telecommunications transmission, railroad equipment, oil well rigs or any lights maintained by the State or a local government, including, without limitation, street lights, traffic-control devices, park lights or ballpark lights; and
(b) Catalytic converters.
2. The term does not include waste generated by a household, aluminum beverage containers, used construction scrap iron or materials consisting of a metal product in its original manufactured form which contains not more than 20 percent by weight nonferrous metal.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 1239)

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