V.I. Code tit. 27, § 370 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 27 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 12 - Scrap Metal Dealers & Scrap Metal Recyclers|§ 370. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meaning: (a) “Department” means the Virgin Islands Department of Licensing and Consumer Affairs. (b) “Ferrous metals” means metallic objects containing significant quantities of iron or steel. (c) “Fixed location” means any area occupied by a metal recycler as owner of the site or as lessee of the site under a lease or other rental agreement providing for occupation of the site by the secondary metals recycler for a total duration of not less than 6 (six) months. (d) “Money” means United States currency or any other medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government as part of its currency. (e) “Non-ferrous metals” means metallic objects not containing significant quantities of iron or steel, including but not limited to, copper, brass, aluminum, bronze, lead, zinc, nickel, and alloys thereof, excluding precious metals as defined and subject to regulation under Chapter 9 of this title. (f) “Personal identification card” means any government-issued photographic identification card. (g) “Purchase transaction” means a transaction in which a secondary metals recycler gives consideration for the purchase or receipt of regulated metals property. (h) “Recycler” shall mean, any person or entity who or which receives scrap metal from a seller retailer for the purpose of processing the raw metal into usable products. (i) “Regulated metals property” means any item composed primarily of any nonferrous metals, but shall not include recyclable aluminum containers, recyclable beverage containers, or similar beverage containers. The term shall include stainless steel beer kegs or stainless steel soft drink beverage containers. (j) “Scrap metal” means any ferrous or nonferrous metal that is no longer used for its original purpose and is capable of being processed for reuse by a metal recycling facility, including, but not limited to, iron, brass, wire, cable, copper, bronze, aluminum, platinum, lead, solder, steel, stainless steel, catalytic convertors, or other similar obsolete ferrous or nonferrous metals, but shall not include recyclable aluminum cans. (k) “Scrap metal dealer” means any person, entity, firm, company, partnership, association, or corporation that purchases products containing ferrous or nonferrous metals for recycling or resale, who: (1) Is engaged, from a fixed location or otherwise, in the business of gathering or obtaining ferrous or nonferrous metals that have served their original economic purpose or who is in the business of performing the manufacturing process by which ferrous metals or nonferrous metals are converted into raw material products consisting of prepared grades and having an existing or potential economic value; or (2) Has facilities for performing the manufacturing process by which ferrous metals or nonferrous metals are converted into raw material products consisting of prepared grades and having an existing or potential economic value, other than by the exclusive use of hand tools, by methods including, without limitation, processing, sorting, cutting, classifying, cleaning, baling, wrapping, shredding, shearing, or changing the physical form or chemical content thereof.