54-20-202 - Limitation on establishment Exception. - Tennessee Statutes

54-20-202. Limitation on establishment Exception.

(a)  No automobile graveyard shall hereafter be established within five hundred feet (500¢) of any state highway in this state, nor shall any automobile graveyard hereafter be established within one thousand feet (1,000¢) of any state highway in this state designated as a United States route by the American Association of State Highway Officials as through routes where official signs designating the highway have been erected indicating the highway to be a United States numbered highway.

(b)  This added restriction on the establishment of automobile graveyards located in relation to the United States numbered routes shall not apply in any case in which the land on which the automobile graveyard is to be established has been specifically designated or zoned for automobile graveyards by the governing body of the county or city in which it is proposed to be established.

[Acts 1965, ch. 352, § 2; T.C.A., §§ 54-577, 54-5-902.]