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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 555

(2) The principal product of which is scrap
iron, scrap steel, or nonferrous scrap for sale only for
resmelting purposes.

8-802.

The General Assembly of Maryland finds and declares
that, to promote the public safety, health, welfare,
convenience, and enjoyment of public travel, to protect the
public investments in highways, and to preserve and enhance
the scenic beauty of lands bordering public highways:

(1)   It is in the public interest to regulate and
restrict the establishment, operation, and maintenance of
automotive dismantler or recycler facilities, SCRAP METAL
PROCESSING FACILITIES, and junkyards near the interstate and
primary highways in this State; and

(2)  Junkyards [and], automotive dismantler or
recycler facilities, AND SCRAP METAL PROCESSING FACILITIES
are to conform to the requirements of this subtitle.

8-803.

(a)  A person may not establish, operate, or maintain
any new junkyard [or], automotive dismantler and recycler
facility, OR SCRAP METAL PROCESSING FACILITY or expand the
area of any existing junkyard or automotive dismantler and
recycler facility, if any part of the junkyard or facility
is within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way
of any interstate or primary highway and is visible from the
main traveled way of that highway, unless the person is
licensed by the Administration under this subtitle.

(b)  This section does not apply to any junkyard or
facility that was in existence on or before January 1, 1968,
unless the area of its operation is expanded.

8-807.

(a) The Administration may not issue a license under
this subtitle for the establishment, operation, or
maintenance of any new junkyard [or], automotive dismantler
and recycler facility, OR SCRAP METAL PROCESSING FACILITY or
for the expansion of any existing junkyard [or], automotive
dismantler and recycler facility, OR SCRAP METAL PROCESSING
FACILITY if any part of the junkyard or facility is within
1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of any
interstate or primary highway, unless the junkyard or
facility is:

(1) Screened by natural objects, plantings,
fences, or other appropriate means so as not to be visible
from the main traveled way of the highway;