A. No person engaged in the business of recycling may purchase or have in his possession aluminum materials consisting of official highway signs or signals that provide traffic information, control, or directions or highway guard rails unless such purchase or possession is accompanied by an act of sale from the public entity which owns such materials.
B. Any person found to be in violation of this Section may be liable for a civil penalty, to be assessed by the secretary, the assistant secretary for the office of environmental compliance, or the court, of not more than five hundred dollars.