License -- Conditions -- Screening

(1) The commission shall promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A to establish that the license required under KRS 190.350 shall be issued when it is shown to the satisfaction of the commission that an automobile, vehicle, or machinery recycler, or material recycler establishment or place of business located closer than one thousand (1,000) feet from the right-of-way line of any road is, so far as deemed practical by the commission, hidden from the view of motorists using the road by an artificial or natural screen, or is hidden by virtue of natural topography. (2) The screening required in this section may be effected by the construction of a fence, or by planting shrubs, trees, or flowering plants, the foliage of which shall, immediately upon planting, provide a sufficient screen or by making use of foliage already in existence. (3) Any automobile, vehicle, or machinery recycler, or material recycler establishment or place of business that cannot as a practical matter be screened shall be required to be removed.