Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 730 - Department of Transportation
Chapter 35 - Maintenance and Control of State Highway System
Subchapter 3 - Junkyard Control
Section 730:35-3-5 - Control measures

(a) Junkyards located outside of zoned and unzoned industrial areas must be screened or located so as not to be visible from the controlled highway.

(b) Recycling of junk and scrap shall be used to the greatest extent practical in the implementation of the junkyard control program. To facilitate recycling, junk or scrap should be moved to an automobile wrecker, or a scrap processor, or put to some other useful purpose.

(c) Every effort shall be made to screen off the area if the junkyard is to continue as an ongoing business. Screening may be accomplished by the use of natural objects, earth mounds, landscape planting, fences, and other appropriate means, including relocating inventory on site to utilize an existing natural screen or a screenable portion of the site.

(d) Where screening is used, it must, upon completion of the screening project, effectively screen the junkyard from the controlled highway on a year-round basis, and be compatible with the surroundings. The Department will evaluate the visual and aesthetic equality as well as determine the effectiveness of all proposed screen designs.

(e) When screening is to be provided by the operator of a nonconforming junkyard, the cost will be controlled by requiring the operator to submit his plan to the Department for approval prior to actual construction. Through this approval process only the minimum expenses actual and necessary to constructing an effective screen will be reimbursed to the operator.

(f) A junkyard shall be relocated only when other control measures are not feasible. Junkyards shall be relocated to a site not visible or beyond 1,000 feet from a controlled highway, or to an industrial area. They shall not be relocated to residential, commercial, or other areas where foreseeable environmental problems may develop.