§ 57-27-10 Short title
§ 57-27-20 Definitions
§ 57-27-30 Declaration of purpose
§ 57-27-40 Junkyards prohibited within 1,000 feet of certain highways; exceptions
§ 57-27-45 Operating junkyard within proscribed areas without permit; permits
§ 57-27-50 Screening of nonconforming junkyards; placement of junk over or beyond screening; penalties
§ 57-27-55 Maintenance of screening
§ 57-27-57 Parking motor vehicles adjacent to junk yard
§ 57-27-60 Promulgation of regulations
§ 57-27-70 Acquisition of lands for relocation, removal, disposal or screening of junkyards
§ 57-27-80 Penalties
§ 57-27-90 Agreements with United States Secretary of Commerce as to control of junkyards
§ 57-27-100 Rule of construction
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Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 57 > Chapter 27 - Junkyard Control

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • automobile graveyard: shall mean any establishment which is maintained or used for storing, buying, or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined, or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts. See South Carolina Code 57-27-20
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Department: means the Department of Transportation. See South Carolina Code 57-27-20
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Federal aid primary system: means that portion of connected main highways, as officially designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, by the Department of Transportation, and approved by the Secretary of Commerce or other appropriate federal official, pursuant to the provisions of Title 23 of the United States Code. See South Carolina Code 57-27-20
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • junk: means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, junked, dismantled, or wrecked automobiles, trucks and other motor vehicles, or parts of them, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material. See South Carolina Code 57-27-20
  • junkyard: shall mean an establishment which is maintained or used for storing, buying, or selling junk, or an automobile graveyard, and the term shall include garbage dumps, sanitary fills and scrap processors. See South Carolina Code 57-27-20
  • lands: as used in this chapter shall be held to cover and include railroads and all property assessed for benefits. See South Carolina Code 49-19-40
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • owner: as used in this chapter shall mean the owner of the freehold estate, as appears by the deed record, and it shall not include reversioners, remaindermen, trustees or mortgagees, who shall not be counted and need not be notified by publication or served by process but shall be represented by the present owner of the freehold estate in any proceedings under this chapter. See South Carolina Code 49-19-30