Sec. 13a-123c. Junkyard and scrap metal processing facilities control. Definitions.
Sec. 13a-123c. Junkyard and scrap metal processing facilities control. Definitions. As used in sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, "highway" means the federal
interstate and primary systems and limited access state highways as defined in section
13a-1; "federal interstate system" means that portion of the National System of Interstate
and Defense Highways located within this state, as officially designated, or as may
hereafter be so designated, by the Commissioner of Transportation and approved by the
Secretary of Commerce, pursuant to the provisions of Title 23, United States Code;
"federal primary system" means that portion of connected main highways, as officially
designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, by the commissioner and approved
by the Secretary of Commerce, pursuant to the provisions of Title 23, United States
Code; "junk" means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber
debris, waste or junked, dismantled or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron, steel,
and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material; "automobile graveyard" means
any establishment or place of business which is maintained, used or operated for storing,
keeping, buying or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined or dismantled motor vehicles or
motor vehicle parts; "junkyard" means an establishment or place of business which is
maintained, used or operated for storing, keeping, buying or selling junk, or for the
maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard, garbage dumps and sanitary fills;
"scrap metal processing facility" means an establishment having facilities for processing
iron, steel or nonferrous scrap and whose principal produce is scrap iron, steel or nonferrous scrap for sale for remelting purposes only; and "effective control" means that, by
January 1, 1968, junkyards, and scrap metal processing facilities, existing in violation of
sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, shall be screened by natural objects, plantings,
fences or other appropriate means so as not to be visible from the main traveled way of
any highway, as hereinafter defined, or shall be removed from sight.
(1967, P.A. 688, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 95.)
History: 1969 act substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner.
See Sec. 14-67g et seq. re motor vehicle junk yards.
Cited. 41 CS 66. Sec. 13a-123 et seq. cited. Id.