California Streets and Highways Code ARTICLE 5 - Control of Junkyards, Scrap Metal Processing Facilities, and Automobile Dismantling Facilities

• Section 745.
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that:(a) The establishment, use, and maintenance of junkyards in areas adjacent to any interstate or primary highway should be controlled...
• Section 746.
  As used in this article:(a) “Junk” means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, junked, dismantled or wrecked motor vehicles,...
• Section 746.1.
  “Nonconforming junkyard” means either of the following:(a) A junkyard lawfully in existence on October 6, 1966, but which does not conform to the requirements of this...
• Section 746.2.
  Nonconforming junkyards may continue in existence as long as they are not extended, enlarged, or changed in use, and are otherwise lawfully maintained.If the location...
• Section 746.3.
  An illegal junkyard is one which is either:(a) Established or is maintained in violation of this article and does not come within the definition of a...
• Section 747.
  Except as hereafter provided, no junkyard shall be established, operated, or maintained if any portion of the junkyard is within 1,000 feet of the nearest...
• Section 747.1.
  Sanitary landfills need not be screened to satisfy the requirements of this article but landscaping shall be required when the fill has been completed and...
• Section 748.
  (a) Any nonconforming junkyard, as soon as the maximum federal share under Section 136 of Title 23, United States Code, is available for that purpose, shall...
• Section 749.
  The department may also screen any junkyards located within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of an interstate or primary highway and...
• Section 751.
  The department is authorized to acquire such interests in real and personal property as may be necessary to effect the screening, recycling, relocation, removal, or...
• Section 751.1.
  The Legislature hereby declares that the acquisition of interests in real and personal property to effect the screening, relocation, removal, or disposal of junkyards provided...
• Section 752.
  If federal law should be interpreted as requiring the states to pay just compensation with regard to the relocation, removal, or disposal of junkyards, just...
• Section 753.
  The commission is authorized to allocate funds from the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund for all of the following purposes:(a) Costs of administering...
• Section 754.
  Any junkyard which is established or maintained in violation of the provisions of this article or the regulations prescribed thereunder is a public nuisance and...
• Section 755.
  The director may screen, relocate, remove or dispose of any illegal junkyard after 30 days’ written notice posted on such property and a copy forwarded...
• Section 756.
  Every illegal junkyard is a public nuisance and every person, as principal, agent or employee, violating any of the provisions of this article or the...
• Section 757.
  The remedies provided in this article for the removal of junkyards are cumulative and not exclusive of any other remedies provided by law.(Amended by Stats....
• Section 758.
  The director may enter into agreements with the Secretary of Transportation of the United States and accept any allotment of funds as provided by Section...
• Section 759.
  The director shall prescribe and enforce regulations governing the establishment, screening, relocation, removal, or disposal of junkyards as provided in this article consistent with the...
• Section 759.3.
  It is declared to be the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to establish minimum standards with respect to the regulation of outdoor...

Last modified: October 22, 2018