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Title 32. HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, AND FERRIES · Chapter 6. REGULATION OF MAINTENANCE AND USE OF PUBLIC ROADS GENERALLY · Article 8. CONTROL OF JUNKYARDS

32-6-241. Restrictions on location of junkyards in relation to location of rights of way of interstate or federal-aid primary highways.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. The department is responsible for the control of junkyards only on those primary highways that are state roads. For all primary highways it shall be unlawful for any person to establish, operate, or maintain any junkyard, any portion of which is within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right of way of any interstate or federal-aid primary highway, except:

  2. (1)

    Those which are screened by natural objects, plantings, fences, or other appropriate means or which are otherwise removed from sight so as not to be visible from the main traveled way of such highway systems;#

  3. (2)

    Those located within areas which are zoned for industrial use under authority of law;#

  4. (3)

    Those located within unzoned industrial areas, which areas shall be determined from actual land uses and defined by regulations promulgated by the commissioner; and#

  5. (4)

    Those which are not visible from the main traveled way of the systems.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1967, p. 433, § 4; Code 1933, § 95A-906, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 947, § 1; Ga. L. 2005, p. 601, § 6/SB 160.

Law reviews

For article, ‘‘Recommendations Regarding Control of Outdoor Advertising Along the Interstate Highway System in Georgia,’’ see 14 Mercer L. Rev. 308 (1963).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t32-(v23a)-2019-pdf.pdf, Volume V23A, 2019 edition, pages 346 to 347; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 04a286a38b4e.