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Senate committee approves bill raising penalties and documentation requirements to curb copper and infrastructure theft
Summary
AB 476 would expand documentation required for scrap metal purchases, prohibit possession without documentation of specified public-infrastructure metal items, raise penalties and create an organized-metal-theft offense. Supporters included dozens of cities and utilities that described streetlight and meter theft, transit and broadband damage. No
Assemblymember Jose Gonzales presented AB 476, a bill aimed at increasing penalties and tightening documentation and resale rules to deter copper and other metal theft from public infrastructure. The author and municipal witnesses described repeated, costly thefts of streetlight wiring, traffic-signal cabling, water meters and other public assets; one example cited was a high-profile theft of wiring from a downtown bridge where the scrap value was small…
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