For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(a) "Fence" means an enclosure at least six feet in height, constructed of nontransparent material, and maintained so as to obscure the junk in the enclosure from the ordinary view of persons passing upon the state, county, city, and township roads in this State.
(b) "Junk" means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, rubber, lumber, pipe, used building materials, roofing, old or scrap iron, steel, plastics or any material made from oil derivatives, or other ferrous or nonferrous materials which are not held for sale or remelting purposes by an establishment having facilities for processing such materials; any worn out, cast-off, or discarded article or material which is ready for destruction or has been collected or stored for salvage or conversion to some other use. Any article or material which, unaltered or unchanged and without further reconditioning, can be used for its original purpose as readily as when new shall not be considered junk.
(c) "Junk car" means any used car or motor vehicle; inoperable, dismantled, partly dismantled, or wrecked vehicle or motor vehicle, or parts thereof, which has been abandoned for use as a motor vehicle on a public highway, public property, or private property, or which is in an unsafe operating condition and has remained in such condition for a period in excess of 30 days. Portions of junk cars, such as hoods, fenders, radiators, rims, and motors, shall be considered junk.
(d) "Junk yard" means an establishment or place of business, other than an establishment having facilities for processing iron, steel, or nonferrous scrap and whose principal product is scrap iron and steel or nonferrous scrap for sale for remelting purposes, which is maintained or operated for the purpose of storing, keeping, buying, or selling junk, or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard, except an establishment or place where automobiles, wrecked or otherwise, are held or impounded for a period not to exceed 90 days exclusively for storage, repair, or resale without alteration.
(e) "Refuse" means ashes, crockery, bottles, cans, plastic or any material made from oil derivatives, paper and other wood pulp products, boxes, rags, grass clippings and other cut vegetation; old or discarded clothing, bedding, mattresses, furniture, appliances; rubbish, dirt, nails, pieces of glass, oil; and all other similar nonputrescible wastes other than those included in the definition of junk.
(1993 Code 93.10)
(1993 Code 93.10)