<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 18-128. - Prohibitions.</div>
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               (a)
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               Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful after the effective date of the
               ordinance from which this article is derived for any person to operate or maintain
               in any unincorporated area of the county a junkyard or automobile graveyard within
               100 feet of the centerline of any public road, within 200 feet of any dwelling owned
               by another person within one quarter mile of any school, rural volunteer fire department,
               church, or within any residential area. For the purposes of this article, a junkyard
               or automobile graveyard shall be within a residential area if any portion of the junkyard
               or automobile graveyard shall be within or contiguous to the boundary of an area where
               25 or more housing units are within a geographical area comprised of a one-fourth
               mile wide strip contiguous with and parallel to the external boundary lines of the
               tract of real property on which the said automobile graveyard or junkyard is located.
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               (b)
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               It shall be unlawful after the effective date of the ordinance from which this article
               is derived for any person to begin to operate, maintain, or establish or to operate,
               maintain or establish in any unincorporated area of the county a junkyard or automobile
               graveyard, the site plan of which has not been approved by the planning board as provided
               in <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_CH18BU_ARTVAUJU_S18-131SIPLREAUGRJUESAFOC71986" class="section-link" data-product-id="13953">section 18-131</a>.
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               (c)
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               Junkyards and automobile graveyards shall be fenced completely. The type of fence
               shall be stated on the site plan and must be specifically approved with the site plan.
               Wire fences shall not be allowed. The planning board may consider the aesthetic aspects
               of the fence in determining whether to approve the site plan. The height of any plants
               used must be at least 12 inches at the time of planting.
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               (d)
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               Each owner, operator or maintainer of a junkyard or automobile graveyard to which
               this article applies, and who chooses to use vegetation as defined in <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_CH18BU_ARTVAUJU_S18-127DE" class="section-link" data-product-id="13953">section 18-127</a> with wire fence, shall utilize good husbandry techniques with respect to said vegetation,
               including, but not limited to, proper pruning, proper fertilizer, and proper mulching,
               so that the vegetation will reach maturity as soon as practical and will have maximum
               density in foliage. Dead or diseased vegetation shall be removed and must be replanted
               at the next appropriate planting time; and the opaque fence, or wire fence and vegetation,
               shall be maintained in good condition.
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               (Ord. of 10-7-1986, Â§ 4; Ord. of 7-2-2003)
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