(1)"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.
(2)"Conforming out-of-standard signs" means existing signs that fail to meet the current statutory and administrative rule requirements for outdoor advertising relative to spacing but comply with all of the terms of the Federal-State Agreement and meet all other statutory and administrative rule requirements that govern outdoor advertising under provisions of state law.
(3)"Federal-State Agreement" means the agreement entered into on January 31, 1972, by and between the United States of America represented by the Secretary of Transportation acting by and throug
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(1) "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.
(2) "Conforming out-of-standard signs" means existing signs that fail to meet the current statutory and administrative rule requirements for outdoor advertising relative to spacing but comply with all of the terms of the Federal-State Agreement and meet all other statutory and administrative rule requirements that govern outdoor advertising under provisions of state law.
(3) "Federal-State Agreement" means the agreement entered into on January 31, 1972, by and between the United States of America represented by the Secretary of Transportation acting by and through the Federal Highway Administrator and the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development entitled, "Carrying Out National Policy Relative to Control of Outdoor Advertising In Areas Adjacent to the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways and the Federal-Aid Primary System".
(4) "Information center" means an area or site established and maintained at safety rest areas for the purpose of informing the public of places of interest within the State and providing such other information as the department may consider desirable.
(5) "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 department and approved by the Secretary of Commerce pursuant to the provisions of Title 23, United States Code 1 .
(6) "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.
(7) "Junkyard" means any establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated or used for storing, keeping, buying or selling junk, or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard, and the term shall include garbage dumps and sanitary fills.
(8) "Outdoor advertising" means any outdoor sign, display, light, device, figure, painting, drawing, message, plaque, poster, billboard, or other thing which is designed, intended or used to advertise or inform, any part of which advertising or information content is visible from any place on the main-traveled way of the interstate or primary systems.
(9) "Primary System" means that portion of connected main highways, as officially designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, by the department and approved by the Secretary of Commerce pursuant to the provisions of Title 23, United States Code 1 .
(10) "Reset" means the movement of a sign structure from one location to another location maintaining the same log mile or mile post location, as authorized by a sign permit amendment and the terms of an executed written partial waiver and reset agreement between the permit owner and the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development.
(11) "Safety rest area" means an area or site established and maintained within or adjacent to the right of way by the department for the convenience of the traveling public.
(12) "Urban area" means an urbanized area or an urban place as designated by the Bureau of the Census having a population of five thousand or more and not within any urbanized area, within boundaries to be fixed by responsible state and local officials in cooperation with each other, subject to approval by the United States Secretary of Transportation. Such boundaries shall, as a minimum, encompass the entire urban place designated by the Bureau of the Census.
1 23 U.S.C.A. §101 et seq.