For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(a) "Automobile graveyard" means any establishment or place of business which is maintained, used, or operated for storing, keeping, buying, or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined, or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts.
(b) "Fence" means a barrier at least six feet in height, constructed of nontransparent material, and maintained so as to obscure the junk from the ordinary view of persons passing on state, county, municipal, and township highways, roads, and streets covered by this chapter.
(c) "Interstate system" means the system of highways as defined in the "Act of August 27, 1958," 72 Stat. 887, 23 U.S.C.A. 103 (D), as amended.
(d) "Junk" means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, trash, waste, batteries, rubber, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous materials.
(e) "Junkyard" means an establishment or place of business which is maintained or operated for the purpose of storing, keeping, buying, or selling junk, and includes garbage dumps and sanitary landfills. The term also includes scrap metal processing facilities which are located within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of a highway in the interstate or primary system. The term does not include junkyards located within areas adjacent to the interstate system and the primary system which are within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and which are zoned industrial, or which are not zoned under authority of state or local law, regulation, or ordinance, but are used for industrial activities as determined by the Ohio Director of Transportation.
(f) "Primary system" means that portion of the highway system designated by the Ohio Director of Transportation which has been approved by the Secretary of Transportation of the United States, pursuant to the "Act of August 27, 1958," 72 Stat. 887, 23 U.S.C.A. 103 (B), as amended.
(g) "Scrap metal processing facility" means 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.
(1980 Code 120.01)