2005 Vermont Code - § 2257. — Screening requirements; fencingLicenses and Nonconforming Uses.

§ 2257. Screening requirements; fencing

(a) Junkyards shall be screened by a fence or vegetation which effectively screens it from view from the highway, and have a gate which shall be closed, except when entering or departing the yard.

(b) Fences and artificial means used for screening purposes as hereafter provided shall be maintained neatly and in good repair. They shall not be used for advertising signs or other displays which are visible from the main traveled way of a highway.

(c) All junk stored or deposited in a junkyard shall be kept within the enclosure, except while being transported to or from the junkyard. All wrecking or other work on the junk shall be accomplished within the enclosure.

(d) Where the topography, natural growth of timber or other natural barrier screen the junkyard from view in part, the agency shall upon granting the license, require the applicant to screen only those parts of the junkyard not so screened.

(e) A junkyard prohibited by section 2253(b) of this title which is lawfully established after July 1, 1969 shall be screened or removed at the time it becomes nonconforming. (Added 1969, No. 98, § 1; amended 1983, No. 185 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 1993, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § 32.)

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