<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 62-54. - Definitions.</div>
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               For the purpose of this article, certain words and terms are defined as herein indicated:
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               <span class="ital">Automobile graveyard/salvage yard</span> means any tract of land, establishment or place of business and which is maintained,
               used or operated for storing, keeping, buying or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined,
               or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts for profit and shall include any
               tract of land, establishment or place of business upon which more than six such motor
               vehicles which cannot be operated under their own power, and not being restored to
               operable condition, and which are kept or stored for profit for a period of 90 days
               or more.
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               <span class="ital">Garage</span> means any establishment or place of business that is maintained and operated for
               the primary purpose of making mechanical and/or body repairs to motor vehicles, and
               which may store as many as six motor vehicles that are not capable of being driven
               under their own power and are not being restored to operable condition, regardless
               of the length of time that individual motor vehicles are stored or kept at such property.
               If the garage is listed as a business in the tax assessor's office by January 31 of
               each year and consists of two acres, six additional motor vehicles as described herein
               may be allowed.
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               <span class="ital">Health</span> or <span class="ital">safety nuisance</span> means a motor vehicle, used machinery, or other used materials may be declared a
               health nuisance or safety hazard when it is found to be:
               
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                  (1)
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                  A breeding ground or harbor for mosquitoes or other insects, snakes, rats, or other
                  pests; or
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                  (2)
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                  A point of collection for pools or ponds of water; or
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                  (3)
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                  An unsafe concentration of gasoline, oil or other flammable or explosive materials;
                  or
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                  (4)
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                  So located that there is a danger of the vehicle falling or turning over without assistance;
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                  (5)
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                  A source of danger for children through entrapment in areas of confinement that cannot
                  be opened from the inside; the over turning of heavy items; or
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                  (6)
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                  An unsafe concentration of car radiators, batteries, or other materials that pose
                  either a hazard of immediate or long-term environmental degradation.
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               <span class="ital">Junk</span> means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber, refrigerators,
               stoves, household, appliances, salvaged building materials, salvaged machinery parts,
               dismantled or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron and steel and other scrap
               ferrous or non-ferrous material.
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               <span class="ital">Junked motor vehicle</span> means a vehicle that does not display a current license plate and that:
               
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                  (1)
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                  Is partially dismantled or wrecked; or
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                  (2)
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                  Cannot be self-propelled or moved in the manner in which it originally was intended
                  to move; or
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                  (3)
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                  Is more than five years old and appears to be worth less than $100.00 or
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                  (4)
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                  Is not listed as personal property with the Halifax County Tax Office, with a tax
                  value of more than $1,000.00.
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               <span class="ital">Junkyard</span> means any establishment, place of business or place which is maintained, operated,
               or used for storing, keeping, buying or selling junk, or for maintenance or operation
               of an automobile graveyard. An establishment or place of business which stores or
               keeps, for a period of 45 days or more, materials within the meaning of "junk" as
               defined in this section which had been derived or created as a result of industrial
               or commercial activity shall be deemed to be a junkyard within the meaning of this
               chapter. A junkyard shall be presumed to have been created when an area of 600 square
               feet or more of "junk materials' are kept or stored at any given place whether for
               profit or not. Materials enclosed in closed buildings, solid waste containers or rolling
               stock (I.e. rail cars, trailer, or other containerized body not intended or designed
               to be self propelled) are excluded.
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               <span class="ital">Junkyard Control Act</span> means G.S. 136-141 through [136]-155 (Article 12) which delegate to the N.C. Department
               of Transportation the responsibility to regulate "junkyards" and automobile graveyards"
               located on interstate and federal-aid primary system highways.
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               <span class="ital">Motor vehicle</span> means any vehicle or machine designed or intended to travel over land by self-propulsion.
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               <span class="ital">New junkyard</span> means junkyards, automobile graveyards, and repair shops established after the effective
               date of this chapter or existing junkyards, automobile graveyards, and repair shops
               that do not register within the specified time limit in order to meet the designation
               of pre-existing.
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               <span class="ital">Opaque</span> means a substance that cannot be seen through when viewed perpendicularly at the
               same elevation.
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               <span class="ital">Pre-existing junkyard</span> means junkyards, automobile graveyards, and repair shops in existence at the time
               of effective date of this chapter that register within the specified time.
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               <span class="ital">Public road</span> means any road or highway which is now or hereafter designated and maintained by
               the N.C. Department of Transportation as part of the State Highway System.
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               <span class="ital">Repair shops</span> means an establishment which is maintained and operated for the purpose of repairing,
               storing, keeping, buying, or selling appliances or equipment other than motor vehicles
               and which stores or keeps any of the said appliances or equipment on the land parcel
               outside a building.
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               <span class="ital">Regulated business</span> means junkyards, automobile graveyards, and repair shops or any other business subject
               to the requirements of this article.
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               <span class="ital">Service station</span> means any establishment which is maintained and operated for the purpose of making
               retail sales of fuels, lubricants, air, water and other items for the operation and
               routine maintenance of motor vehicles, and/or for making mechanical repairs, servicing
               and/or washing of motor vehicles and which is used to store not more than six motor
               vehicles that are not capable of being driven under their own power and are not being
               restored to operable conditions regardless of the length of time that individual motor
               vehicles are stored, or kept at such property.
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               <span class="ital">Vectors</span> means an organism that carries disease-causing micro-organisms from one host to another
               (e.g. rats, mosquitoes, etc.)
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               (Amend. of 10-19-04, eff. 1-1-05, Â§ 4)
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