HB 1423-LOCAL - AS INTRODUCED
2000 SESSION
HOUSE BILL 1423-LOCAL
AN ACT relative to regulation of junk yards.
SPONSORS: Rep. Musler, Straf 6
COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture
This bill eliminates the exception to the laws regarding motor vehicle recycling yards and junk yards for certain solid waste management facilities, and makes a change in the definition of "junk yard."
This bill was requested by the department of environmental services.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
00-2422
08/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT relative to regulation of junk yards.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Control of Junk Yards and Automotive Recycling Yards; Definitions. Amend RSA 236:91, IV to read as follows:
IV. ["Junk yard" or] "Automotive recycling yard" means an establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated, or used for storing, keeping, buying or selling junk, or for the maintenance or operation of an automotive recycling yard, and includes garbage dumps and sanitary fills. The word does not include any motor vehicle dealers registered with the director of motor vehicles under RSA 261:104 and controlled under RSA 236:126.
2 Definition of Junk Yard. Amend RSA 236:112, I to read as follows:
I. [In addition to the definitions in RSA 236:91, II, III and IV] "Junk yard" means any business and any place of storage or deposit, whether in connection with another business or not, which has stored or deposited 2 or more unregistered motor vehicles which are no longer intended or in condition for legal use on the public highways, or used parts of motor vehicles or old iron, metal, glass, paper, cordage, or other waste or discarded or secondhand material which has been a part, or intended to be a part, of any motor vehicle, the sum of which parts or material shall be equal in bulk to 2 or more motor vehicles. Junk yard shall also include any place of business or storage or deposit of motor vehicles purchased for the purpose of dismantling the vehicles for parts or for use of the metal for scrap and where it is intended to burn material which are parts of a motor vehicle or cut up the parts thereof. This definition shall not include any motor vehicle dealer registered with the director of motor vehicles under RSA 261:104 and controlled under RSA 236:126.
3 Repeal. RSA 236:111-a, relative to an exception to the motor vehicle recycling yards and junk yards laws for solid waste management facilities, is repealed.
4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.