As used in this part 5, unless the context otherwise requires:
"Automobile graveyard" means any establishment or place of business which is maintained, used, or operated for storing, keeping, buying, or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined, or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts.
"Department" means the department of transportation.
"Highway" means the federal-aid primary and interstate systems, as defined in section 43-2-101.
"Junk" means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubberdebris, waste, or junked, dismantled, or wrecked automobiles, appliances, or parts thereof, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material.
"Junkyard" 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 automobile graveyard, and the term includes garbage dumps and sanitary fills.
"Person" means any individual, firm, agency, company, association, partnership, business trust, joint stock company, or corporation who operates a junkyard or who allows a junkyard to be placed or to remain on premises controlled by him.
Source: L. 66: p. 9, § 2. C.R.S. 1963: § 120-16-2. L. 91: (2) amended, p. 1096, § 118, effective July 1.