50-619. Definitions.
50-619
50-619. Definitions.As used in this act, unless the context otherwise requires, thefollowing words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribedto them herein:
(a) "Junk dealer" means any person engaged in the business of buying,selling and dealing in junk, or any person purchasing, gathering,collecting, soliciting or traveling about from place to place procuringjunk or any person operating, carrying on, conducting or maintaining a junkyard or place where junk is gathered together and stored or kept forshipment, sale or transfer, but shall not include antique dealers, orautomotive salvage dealers dealing in wrecked vehicles as definedin this act;
(b) "Junk yard" means any yard, plot, space, enclosure, building or anyother place where junk is collected, stored, gathered together and kept;
(c) "Junk" shall mean and include, in addition to items or goodscommonly referred to as junk, such other used or secondhand goods as rope,scrap iron, brass, lead, copper or aluminum wire or tubing and other scrapmetals, but shall not include antiques, or wrecked vehicles as defined inthis act, or aluminum in food or beverage containers;
(d) "Antique" means any furniture, object of art, or other object, itemor article made or manufactured at an earlier period of time, but shall notinclude junk;
(e) "Antique dealer" means any person conducting a business of buyingand selling antiques;
(f) "Wrecked vehicle" means any wrecked, ruined, dismantled orinoperative motor passenger vehicle or motor truck, and any part oraccessory therefrom, for which an original or assigned certificate of titleis transferred for such vehicle or truck to an automotive salvage dealerand later surrendered and reported to the division of vehicles of the statedepartment of revenue as required by law;
(g) "Automotive salvage dealer" means any person holding a valid licenseunder the provisions of K.S.A. 68-2201 to 68-2215, inclusive, and any actsamendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, designated as the junkyard andsalvage control act.
History: L. 1971, ch. 225, § 1;L. 1975, ch. 427, § 66;L. 2008, ch. 82, § 1; July 1.