(a) No automobile graveyard shall hereafter be established within five hundred feet (500′) of any state highway in this state, nor shall any automobile graveyard hereafter be established within one thousand feet (1,000′) of any state highway in this state designated as a United States route by the American Association of State Highway Officials as through routes where official signs designating the highway have been erected indicating the highway to be a United States numbered highway.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 54-20-202

  • Automobile graveyard: means any lot or place that is exposed to the weather and upon which more than five (5) motor vehicles of any kind, incapable of being operated, and that it would not be economically practical to make operative, are placed, located or found. See Tennessee Code 54-20-201
  • Highway: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) This added restriction on the establishment of automobile graveyards located in relation to the United States numbered routes shall not apply in any case in which the land on which the automobile graveyard is to be established has been specifically designated or zoned for automobile graveyards by the governing body of the county or city in which it is proposed to be established.
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