Oklahoma § 69-1253 - Definitions

§ 69-1253. Definitions

As used in this act:

(a) "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.

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(b) "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.

(c) "Junkyard" means an 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.

(d) "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 Transportation Commission, and approved by the Secretary of

Transportation, pursuant to the provisions of Title 23, United

States Code, "Highways."

(e) "Primary system" means that portion of connected main

highways as officially designated, or as may hereafter be so

designated, by the Transportation Commission, and approved by the

Secretary of Transportation, pursuant to the provisions of Title 23,

United States Code, "Highways."

(f) "Unzoned industrial areas" means any area not zoned by state

or local law, regulation or ordinance, which is occupied by one or

more industrial activities, and the lands along the highway for a

distance of one thousand (1,000) feet measured in each direction

from the outer edges of the regularly used buildings, parking lots,

storage, or processing areas of the activities, and lying parallel

to the edge or pavement of the highway, and located on the same side

of the highway as the principal part of said activities.

Measurements shall not be from the property lines of the activities,

unless said property lines coincide with the limits of the

activities.

(g) "Scrap metal processing facility" means an establishment

having facilities used primarily for processing iron, steel or

nonferrous metals and whose principal product is such iron, steel or

scrap for sale for remelting purposes only, the processor being

considered a manufacturer.

(h) "Industrial activities" means those activities permitted

only in industrial zones, or in less restrictive zones by the

nearest zoning authority within the state, or prohibited by said

authority but generally recognized as industrial by other zoning

authorities within the state except that none of the following shall

be considered industrial activities:

(1) Outdoor advertising signs, displays or devices;

(2) Agricultural, forestry, ranching, grazing, farming and

related activities, including, but not limited to, wayside fresh

produce stands;

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(3) Activities normally and regularly in operation less than

three (3) months of the year;

(4) Transient or temporary activities;

(5) Activities not visible from the traffic lanes of the main

traveled way;

(6) Activities more than three hundred (300) feet from the

nearest edge of the main traveled way;

(7) Activities conducted in a building principally used as a

residence;

(8) Railroad tracks, minor sidings and passenger depots;

(9) Strip or other open mining activities; and

(10) Junkyards, automobile graveyards or scrap metal processing

facilities.

(i) "Department" means the Oklahoma Department of

Transportation.

(j) "Commission" means the Transportation Commission of the

Oklahoma Department of Transportation.

(k) "Director" means the Director of the Oklahoma Department of

Transportation.

Added by Laws 1968, c. 98, § 3, emerg. eff. April 1, 1968. Amended

by Laws 1978, c. 107, § 1, emerg. eff. March 29, 1978.