306C.1 - DEFINITIONS. - Iowa Statutes

306C.1 DEFINITIONS. For the purposes of this division unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Department" means the state department of transportation. 2. "Interstate highway" includes "interstate road" and "interstate system" and means any highway of the primary system at any time officially designated as a part of the national system of interstate and defense highways by the department and approved by the appropriate authority of the federal government. 3. "Junk" means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, or junked, dismantled, or wrecked automobiles, or parts of automobiles, or iron, steel, or other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material. 4. "Junkyard" means an establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated, or used primarily for storing, keeping, buying, or selling junk; and the term includes garbage dumps, sanitary fills, and automobile graveyards.          Section History: Early Form [C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 306C.1]          Section History: Recent Form 2003 Acts, ch 8, §1 Referred to in § 555B.1