Secondhand goods: junk dealers.

Existing law prohibits a junk dealer or recycler from possessing a reasonably recognizable, disassembled, or inoperative fire hydrant or fire department connection, a manhole cover or lid, or a backflow device, as described, that was owned by an agency, without a written certification on the agency's letterhead that the agency either has sold the material described or is offering the material for sale, as specified. Under existing law, a junk dealer or recycler who unknowingly takes possession of one or more of the specified items as part of a load of otherwise nonprohibited materials without a written certification has a duty to notify the appropriate law enforcement agency by the end of…