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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
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IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
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JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2012 | |
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RELATING TO HIGHWAYS - JUNKYARD CONTROL ACT | |
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Introduced By: Representatives Ucci, and Fellela | |
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Date Introduced: April 25, 2012 | |
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Referred To: House Environment and Natural Resources | |
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It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
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SECTION 1. Section 24-14-3 of the General Laws in Chapter 24-14 entitled "Junkyard |
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Control Act" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
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24-14-3. Definitions. -- (a) "Automobile junkyard" means any establishment or place |
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where one or more unserviceable, discarded, worn out or junked automobiles or bodies, engines, |
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tires, parts or accessories are gathered together. |
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(b) "Interstate system" means that portion of the national system of interstate and defense |
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highways located within this state, as officially designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, |
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by the director of transportation, and approved by the secretary of commerce, pursuant to the |
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provisions of title 23, United States Code, Highways. |
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(c) "Junk" means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber |
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debris, waste, or junked, dismantled, or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron, steel, and |
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other old or scrap metal, ferrous or nonferrous material. |
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(d) "Junkyard" means an establishment or place of business which is maintained, |
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operated, or used for storing, keeping, buying, or selling junk, as defined in subsection 24-14- |
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3(c), or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile junkyard and the term shall include |
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garbage dumps, |
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(e) "Primary system" means that portion of connected main highways, as officially |
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designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, by the director of transportation, and approved |
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by the secretary of commerce, pursuant to the provisions of title 23, United States Code, |
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Highways. |
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SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
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BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
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RELATING TO HIGHWAYS - JUNKYARD CONTROL ACT | |
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This act would amend the definition of junk to clarify that it would include scrap metal. |
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This act would take effect upon passage. |
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