Ala. Code § 23-1-241
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Section 23-1-241 Definitions
Official statutory text
For the purposes of this division, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(1) AUTOMOBILE RECYCLER. 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) DIRECTOR. The State Department of Transportation.
(3) INTERSTATE SYSTEM. That portion of the national system of interstate and defense highways located within this state or officially designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, by the director and approved by the United States Department of Transportation pursuant to the provisions of Title 23, United States Code, “Highways.”
(4) JUNK. 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.
(5) JUNKYARD. 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 recycler. The term shall include garbage dumps and sanitary fills.
(6) PRIMARY SYSTEM. Any highway that is on the National Highway System, as defined under federal law, which includes the Interstate Highway System.
(7) SCRAP PROCESSOR. Any person, firm, or corporation engaged only in the business of buying scrap iron and metals, including, but not limited to, old automobiles, for the specific purpose of processing into raw material for remelting purposes only and whose principal product is ferrous and nonferrous scrap for shipment to steel mills, foundries, smelters, and refineries and maintaining an established place of business in this state and having facilities and machinery designed for such processing.
(1) AUTOMOBILE RECYCLER. 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) DIRECTOR. The State Department of Transportation.
(3) INTERSTATE SYSTEM. That portion of the national system of interstate and defense highways located within this state or officially designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, by the director and approved by the United States Department of Transportation pursuant to the provisions of Title 23, United States Code, “Highways.”
(4) JUNK. 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.
(5) JUNKYARD. 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 recycler. The term shall include garbage dumps and sanitary fills.
(6) PRIMARY SYSTEM. Any highway that is on the National Highway System, as defined under federal law, which includes the Interstate Highway System.
(7) SCRAP PROCESSOR. Any person, firm, or corporation engaged only in the business of buying scrap iron and metals, including, but not limited to, old automobiles, for the specific purpose of processing into raw material for remelting purposes only and whose principal product is ferrous and nonferrous scrap for shipment to steel mills, foundries, smelters, and refineries and maintaining an established place of business in this state and having facilities and machinery designed for such processing.
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