Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 68-2207

  • Highway: means a highway as defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
  • Main traveled way: means the traveled way of a highway on which through traffic is carried. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
  • road: include public bridges and may be construed to be equivalent to "county way" "county road" "common road" "state road" and "territorial road. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Secretary: means the secretary of transportation. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Traveled way: means the portion of a roadway for the movement of vehicles, exclusive of shoulders and auxiliary lanes. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232
  • Visible: means capable of being seen without visual aid by a person of normal visual acuity. See Kansas Statutes 68-2232

Any junkyard which was lawfully in existence on May 4, 1967, and duly certified in the subsequent year and which is within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the main traveled way of any street or highway on the interstate or the primary systems and any junkyard within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the main traveled way of any other state, county, township highway, road or city street, and which is not located as specified in subsection (b) or (c) of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 68-2204, and amendments thereto, shall be screened, if feasible and if federal funds are available, by the secretary of transportation at locations on the highway right-of-way or in areas acquired for such purposes outside the right-of-way so as not to be visible from the main traveled way of such highway.