68-2203. Definitions. (a) The term "junk" shall mean 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.
(b) "Automobile graveyard" shall mean any establishment which is maintained, used, or operated, for storing, keeping, buying, or selling 10 or more wrecked, scrapped, ruined, dismantled or inoperative motor vehicles, but such term shall not include any location where motor vehicle bodies are placed along stream banks for purposes of bank stabilization and soil erosion control, if such placement conforms with guidelines established by the chief engineer of the division of water resources of the Kansas department of agriculture.
(c) "Junkyard" shall mean an establishment 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.
(d) "Interstate system" means that portion of the national system of interstate and defense highways, including city connecting links and portions of the Kansas turnpikes, located within this state, as officially designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, by the secretary, and approved by the proper federal authority as provided by law.
(e) "Primary system" means that portion of connected main highways, including city connecting links, as officially designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, by the secretary, and approved by the proper federal authority as provided by law.
(f) "Person" means any individual, firm, agency, company, association, partnership, business trust, joint stock company or corporation, including municipal corporation.
(g) "Commission" means the secretary of transportation.
(h) "Board" means the secretary of transportation.
History: L. 1967, ch. 357, § 3; L. 1973, ch. 271, § 2; L. 1975, ch. 426, § 60; L. 1978, ch. 276, § 1; L. 2004, ch. 101, § 108; July 1.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 68 - Roads And Bridges
Article 22 - Highway Beautification
68-2204 Junkyards prohibited, when.
68-2206 Requirements as to screening.
68-2207 Junkyards lawfully in existence.
68-2208 Acquisition of land, when.
68-2211 Agreements with the United States authorized.
68-2213 Denial, suspension or revocation of certificate of compliance; hearing; judicial review.
68-2215 Unlawful junkyard maintenance; penalty.
68-2231 Declaration of policy.
68-2233 Erection or maintenance of signs in adjacent area prohibited, exceptions.
68-2234 Highway advertising control; sign standards; zoning requirements.
68-2235 Agreements with secretary of U.S. department of transportation.
68-2236 Licenses and permits; fees.
68-2238 Compensation for removal of signs.
68-2239 Same; condemnation proceedings; claim and action for compensation.
68-2240 Removal of nonconforming signs; notice; right to appeal; cost of removing.
68-2241 Acceptance of federal funds.
68-2242 Removal of signs subject to availability of federal funds.
68-2244 Removal of nonconforming signs; local zoning authority; compensation for removal.