2020 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 69. Roads Bridges and Ferries
§69-1253. Definitions.

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.

(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;

(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.

Added by Laws 1968, c. 98, § 3, emerg. eff. April 1, 1968. Amended by Laws 1978, c. 107, § 1, emerg. eff. March 29, 1978.