2 CCR 601-2.00 - DEFINITIONS

2.01 "Abandoned" means to relinquish all title, possession, or claim. A junkyard is considered to be abandoned if the business has been voluntarily discontinued, or the activity has been terminated, for a period of one year.

2.02 "Automobile graveyard" means any establishment or place or business which is maintained, used, or operated for storing, keeping, buying, or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined, or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts.

2.03 "Department" means the Colorado Department of Transportation.

2.04 "Highway" for purposes of these rules means the interstate highway system.

2.05 "Junkyard" means any establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated, or used for storing, keeping, buying or selling junk, or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard, and the term includes garbage dumps and sanitary fills. This definition also includes scrap metal processors, auto-wrecking yards, salvage yards, scrap yards, auto-recycling yards, used auto parts yards and temporary storage of automobile bodies or parts awaiting disposal as a normal part of a business operation when the business will continually have like materials located on the premises.

2.06 "Main-traveled way" means the traveled way of a highway on which through traffic is carried. In the case of a divided highway, the traveled way of each of the separated roadways for traffic in opposite directions is a main-traveled way. It does not include such facilities as frontage roads, turning roadways, or parking areas.

2.07 "Zoned Industrial" means zoned under the authority of state law established by zoning authorities as being most appropriate for industry or manufacturing. A zone which may include certain industrial activities as an incident to the primary land use designation is not considered to be an industrial zone.

2.08 "Visible" means capable of being seen without visual aid by a person of normal acuity as viewed from a standard sized automobile from the main-traveled-way.

2.09 The definitions set forth in 23 CFR 751.7, "Junkyard Control and Acquisition" apply to these rules.

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