2025 California Code
Streets and Highways Code - SHC
DIVISION 1 - STATE HIGHWAYS
CHAPTER 3 - The Care and Protection of State Highways
ARTICLE 5 - Control of Junkyards, Scrap Metal Processing Facilities, and Automobile Dismantling Facilities
Section 755.

Universal Citation:
CA St & Hwy Code § 755 (2025)
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755. The director may screen, relocate, remove or dispose of any illegal junkyard after 30 days’ written notice posted on such property and a copy forwarded by mail to the owner of such junkyard at his last-known address. The department shall have an action to recover the expense of such screening, relocating, removing or disposing, costs and expenses of suit, and, in addition thereto, the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) for each day such junkyard or portion thereof, remains in violation after the expiration of 30 days from the time of forwarding such written notice.

For the purposes of this section, the director or his authorized agent may enter upon private property.

All costs incurred under this section in screening, relocating, removing or disposing of such junkyards shall be the responsibility of the owners thereof.

(Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 919.)

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