As used in the Highway Beautification Act:

A. "interstate system" means that portion of the national system of interstate and defense highways located within this state as may now or hereafter be officially so designated by the commission and approved pursuant to Title 23, United States Code;

B. "primary system" means that portion of connected main highways located within this state as may now or hereafter be officially so designated by the commission and approved pursuant to Title 23, United States Code;

C. "commission" means the state transportation commission;

D. "outdoor advertising" means any outdoor sign, display, light, device, figure, painting, drawing, message, plaque, poster, billboard or other object that is designed, intended or used to advertise or inform, any part of which is located within six hundred sixty feet of the nearest edge of the right of way and is visible from the main-traveled way of the interstate or primary systems or those located beyond six hundred sixty feet of the right of way, located outside of urban areas, visible from the main-traveled way of the system and erected with the purpose of their message being read from such main-traveled way;

E. "safety rest area" means a site established and maintained by or under public supervision or control for the convenience of the traveling public within or adjacent to the right of way of the interstate or primary systems;

F. "information center" means a site established and maintained at a safety rest area for the purpose of informing the public of places of interest within the state and providing other information the commission considers desirable;

G. "junk" means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber, debris, waste or junked, dismantled or wrecked automobiles or parts thereof, iron, steel and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material;

H. "automobile graveyard" means any establishment or place of business maintained, used or operated for storing, keeping, buying or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts;

I. "junkyard" means any establishment or place of business maintained, used or operated for storing, keeping, buying or selling junk or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard, any portion of which is located within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right of way of the interstate or primary systems, and it includes garbage dumps and sanitary fills; and

J. "urban area" means an area including and adjacent to a municipality or other urban place having a population of five thousand or more, as determined by the latest available federal census, within boundaries to be fixed by the commission, subject to any necessary approval by any federal agency, department or personnel.

History: 1953 Comp., § 55-11-2, enacted by Laws 1966, ch. 65, § 2; 1971, ch. 108, § 1; 1975, ch. 193, § 1; 2003, ch. 142, § 86.

The 2003 amendment, effective July 1, 2003, substituted "state transportation commission" for "state highway commission" in Subsections C and J.