§ 24-14-3 - Definitions. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 24-14-3

   § 24-14-3  Definitions. – (a) "Automobile junkyard" means any establishment or place where one or moreunserviceable, discarded, worn out or junked automobiles or bodies, engines,tires, parts or accessories are gathered together.

   (b) "Interstate system" means that portion of the nationalsystem of interstate and defense highways located within this state, asofficially designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, by the director oftransportation, and approved by the secretary of commerce, pursuant to theprovisions of title 23, United States Code, Highways.

   (c) "Junk" means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags,batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, or junked, dismantled, orwrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron, steel, and other old or scrapferrous or nonferrous material.

   (d) "Junkyard" means an establishment or place of businesswhich is maintained, operated, or used for storing, keeping, buying, or sellingjunk, or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile junkyard and theterm shall include garbage dumps and sanitary fills.

   (e) "Primary system" means that portion of connected mainhighways, as officially designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, bythe director of transportation, and approved by the secretary of commerce,pursuant to the provisions of title 23, United States Code, Highways.