North Dakota Century Code Title 51. Sales and Exchanges § 51-35-03. Exemptions

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.