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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(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.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Kansas Statutes Chapter 68. Roads and Bridges § 68-2203. Definitions - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ks/chapter-68-roads-and-bridges/ks-st-sect-68-2203/
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