North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 20. Motor Vehicles § 20-137.7. Definitions of words and phrases

(1) “Abandoned vehicle” means a motor vehicle that has remained illegally on private or public property for a period of more than 10 days without the consent of the owner or person in control of the property.

(2) “Demolisher” means any person, firm or corporation whose business is to convert a motor vehicle into processed scrap or scrap metal or otherwise to wreck, or dismantle, such a vehicle.

(3) “Department” means the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

(4) “Derelict vehicle” means a motor vehicle:

(5) “Officer” means any law-enforcement officer of the State, of any county or of any municipality including county sanitation officers.

(6) “Salvage yard” means a business or a person who possesses five or more derelict vehicles, regularly engages in buying and selling used vehicle parts.

(7) “Secretary” means the Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

(8) “Tag” means any type of notice affixed to an abandoned or derelict motor vehicle advising the owner or the person in possession that the same has been declared an abandoned or derelict vehicle and will be treated as such, which tag shall be of sufficient size as to be easily discernible and contain such information as the Secretary deems necessary to enforce this Part.

(9) “Vehicle” means every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway by mechanical means.

(10) “Vehicle recycling” means the process whereby discarded vehicles (abandoned, derelict or wrecked) are collected and then processed by shredding, bailing or shearing to produce processed scrap iron and steel which is then remelted by steel mills and foundries to make raw materials which are subsequently used to manufacture new metal-based products for the consumer.