To promote the public safety, health, welfare, convenience and travel enjoyment, to protect the public investment in highways, and to preserve and enhance the scenic beauty of lands bordering public highways, and to promote the conservation of our natural mineral resources by encouraging the recycling of resalable scrap iron and metal, it is hereby declared to be in the public interest to regulate the establishment, operation, and maintenance of junkyards in areas adjacent to interstate and federal aid primary highway systems in the state highway system within this State. The General Assembly hereby finds and declares that junkyards which do not conform to the requirements of this chapter are public nuisances.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-582; 1966 (54) 2130; 1978 Act No. 530 Section 2.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries
Section 57-27-10. Short title.
Section 57-27-20. Definitions.
Section 57-27-30. Declaration of purpose.
Section 57-27-40. Junkyards prohibited within 1,000 feet of certain highways; exceptions.
Section 57-27-45. Operating junkyard within proscribed areas without permit; permits.
Section 57-27-55. Maintenance of screening.
Section 57-27-57. Parking motor vehicles adjacent to junk yard.
Section 57-27-60. Promulgation of regulations.
Section 57-27-70. Acquisition of lands for relocation, removal, disposal or screening of junkyards.
Section 57-27-90. Agreements with United States Secretary of Commerce as to control of junkyards.