Sec. 14-67g. (Formerly Sec. 21-15). Definitions. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 14-67g. (Formerly Sec. 21-15). Definitions. "Motor vehicle recycler's business" or "motor vehicle recycler's yard" shall include any business and any place of storage or deposit, whether in connection with another business or not, which has stored or deposited two or more unregistered motor vehicles which are no longer intended or in condition for legal use on the public highways, or used parts of motor vehicles or old iron, metal, glass, paper, cordage or other waste or discarded or secondhand material which has been a part, or intended to be a part, of any motor vehicle, the sum of which parts or material shall be equal in bulk to two or more motor vehicles. Said terms shall also include any place of business or storage or deposit of motor vehicles purchased for the purpose of dismantling the vehicles for parts or for use of the metal for scrap and where it is intended to cut up the parts thereof.

      (1949 Rev., S. 4653; 1953 S. 2332d; 1972, P.A. 37, S. 1; P.A. 96-167, S. 15.)

      History: 1972 act deleted reference to place of business where it is intended to burn material forming parts of motor vehicles; Sec. 21-15 transferred to Sec. 14-67g in 1981; P.A. 96-167 substituted "recycler's" for "junk" in the terms defined.

      Annotations to former section 21-15:

      Former provision authorizing commissioner to determine unfitness and bulk deemed unconstitutional. 116 C. 470. Business of buying, sorting and grading used tires not within definition. 145 C. 490. Plant that manufactures processed scrap autos is not a "motor vehicle junk business." 161 C. 229.

      Definition, "motor vehicle junk yard", applies to fenced-in property not open to view from public highway. 12 CS 70. Where defendant did not buy or cut up cars for junk and where he had unrepairable cars or parts removed periodically, held that he was not operating a motor vehicle junk yard. 24 CS 222.