CHAPTER 8

An Act to amend and reenact § 33-279.3 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to establishment, limitations on and use of automobile graveyards.

[H 64]
Approved February 8, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 33-279.8 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 33-279.8. (a) For the purpose of this section, “automobile grave-
yard” means any lot or place which is exposed to the weather and upon
which more than five motor vehicles of any kind, incapable of being oper-
ated, and which it would not be economically practical to make operative,
are placed, located or found. —

No automobile graveyard shall hereafter be established within
five hundred feet of any State highway in this State.

(c) No automobile graveyard shall hereafter be established within
one thousand feet of any primary State highway, except on land which has
been specifically designated or zoned for such use by the governing body
of the county or city in which it is proposed to be established.

(d) Any person who maintains an automobile graveyard, any part
of which is within five hundred feet of any State highway, shall erect and
maintain a fence or hedge around such automobile graveyard. Such fence
or hedge shall be at least six feet high and sufficient to conceal such auto-
mobile graveyard from the view of a person standing at the same level
as such graveyard; provided, however, that no fence or hedge shall be
required in any case when erection thereof would not effectively conceal a
substantial portion of such automobile graveyard from the view of a per-
son on such highway.

(e) Any person violating any provision of this section shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and punished as provided by law. Each day’s subsequent
violation shall constitute a separate offense.