Section 290-RICR-30-00-3.4 - DefinitionsA. For the purposes of these Rules and Regulations, the following terms shall have the following meaning: 1. "Department" means the Department of Transportation of the State of Rhode Island.2. "Junk" means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, or junked, dismantled, or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material.3. "Junkyard" means 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 automobile junkyard and the term shall include garbage dumps and sanitary fills. a. "Automobile junkyard" means any establishment or place where one or more unserviceable, discarded, worn out or junked automobiles, or bodies, engines, tires, parts or accessories are gathered together.b. "Illegal junkyard" means a junkyard which was established or is maintained in violation of the State law, Rules and Regulations, or local law or ordinance.c. "Nonconforming junkyard" means a junkyard which was lawfully established, but which does not comply with the provisions of subsequent State law or regulations or which later fails to comply with law or regulations due to changed conditions.4. "Main-traveled way" means the traveled way of a highway on which through traffic is carried. In the case of a divided highway, the traveled way of each of the separated roadways for traffic in opposite directions is a main-traveled way. It does not include such facilities as frontage roads, turning roadways or parking areas.5. "Municipality" means a city or town in the State of Rhode Island.6. "Primary system" means that portion of connected main highways, as officially designated, or as may hereafter be so designated by the Director of Transportation, and approved by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, pursuant to the provisions of 23 U.S.C., Highways.7. "Right-of-way" means the easement in or property acquired by the public through the Department of Transportation or its predecessors for the purposes of highway construction, safety rest areas, landscaping or any other purpose incidental to highway travel.8. "Scrap Processing Facility" means any establishment having facilities for processing iron, steel, non- ferrous scrap, mineral wastes or slag, and whose principal produce is scrap iron, steel, or nonferrous scrap for sale for remelting purposes only.9. "Screening" means the use of any vegetative planting, fencing, ornamental wall of masonry, or other architectural treatment, earthen embankment, or a combination of any of these which will effectively hide from view any deposit of junk from the main traveled way.10. "Visible" means capable of being seen without visual aid by a person of normal visual acuity.290 R.I. Code R. 290-RICR-30-00-3.4