Chapter 140B

Section 1. The following terms as used in this chapter shall, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context, have the following meanings: (a) ''Junk'', old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, or junked, dismantled, or w…

Section 10. In order to carry out the purposes and provisions of this chapter and of Title II of the Federal Highway Beautification Act of 1965, the department may expend any funds made available for the laying out, construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, relocation or improve…

Section 2. No person shall establish, operate or maintain a junkyard, any portion of which is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of any interstate or primary highway, unless such junkyard is: (a) screened by natural objects, plantings, fences, or oth…

Section 3. The department may promulgate such rules and regulations governing the location, planting, construction and maintenance of the screens or fences, including the materials used in screening or fencing, as may be required by this chapter.

Section 4. If the department determines that the topography of the area adjoining the highway does not permit adequate screening of such junkyards or that the screening of such junkyards is not economically feasible, it may acquire by purchase or otherwise or take by eminent doma…

Section 5. The administrator, or an agent authorized by him, may at any time enter upon any premises used by any person licensed to carry on business under section fifty-four or fifty-nine of chapter one hundred and forty to ascertain if such person is conducting said business in…

Section 6. A licensee under section fifty-four or fifty-nine of chapter one hundred and forty, or any other person in charge of the licensed premises, who refuses to allow the administrator or his authorized agent to enter said premises, or any person who wilfully hinders, obstru…

Section 7. Any junkyard which does not conform to the requirements of this chapter shall be deemed a nuisance and the department may make application to the superior court for the county in which such junkyard is established or maintained for an injunction to abate such nuisances…

Section 8. No person shall operate or maintain a junkyard in violation of the provisions of this chapter. The state police and the police of the cities and towns shall enforce this chapter. Any person violating any provision of this chapter the punishment for which is not otherwi…

Section 9. The department is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with the Secretary of Commerce of the United States as provided by Title 23, United States Code, relative to the control of junkyards in areas adjacent to the interstate and primary systems, and to take actio…