Okla. Stat. tit. 69, § 69-1253
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Definitions
Official statutory text
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.
(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.
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 69. Roads, Bridges, and Ferries Page 126
(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.
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