Connecticut § 13a-123c Junkyard and scrap metal processing facilities control. Definitions.

Connecticut Statutes

§ 13a-123c — Junkyard and scrap metal processing facilities control. Definitions.

Connecticut § 13a-123c

Title 13aHighways and Bridges

Ch. 238Highway Construction and Maintenance

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Bluebook

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 13a-123c (2026).

Text

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 cop

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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. See Sec. 14-67g et seq. re motor vehicle junk yards.

Legislative History

(1967, P.A. 688, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 95.) History: 1969 act substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner. Cited. 41 CS 66.