North Carolina General Statutes 136-147. Screening of junkyards lawfully in existence
Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 136-147
- Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- junkyard: shall mean an establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated, or used for storing, keeping, buying, or selling junk, or for maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard, and the term shall include garbage dumps and sanitary fills. See North Carolina General Statutes 136-143
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Visible: means capable of being seen without visual aid by a person of normal visual acuity. See North Carolina General Statutes 136-143
Any junkyard lawfully in existence on the effective date of this Article as determined by N.C. Gen. Stat. § 136-155 which does not conform to the requirements for exceptions in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 136-144 hereof, and any other junkyard lawfully in existence along any highway which may be hereafter designated as an interstate or primary highway or a North Carolina route in a county without an interstate or federal aid primary highway and which does not conform to the requirements for exception under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 136-144 hereof, shall be screened, if feasible, by the Department of Transportation at locations on the highway right-of-way or in areas acquired for such purposes outside the right-of-way in such manner that said junkyard shall not be visible from the main-traveled way of such highways. The Department of Transportation is authorized to acquire fee simple title or any lesser interest in real property for the purpose required by this section, by gift, purchase or condemnation. (1967, c. 1198, s. 7; 1973, c. 507, s. 5; c. 1439, s. 8; 1977, c. 464, s. 7.1; 1993, c. 493, s. 3.)