Florida Junkyard Control Law

The act regulates where junkyards may be located and how they may operate, barring them outside defined circumstances and giving a designated state authority power to require that existing yards be screened from view or removed. To that end it authorizes the acquisition of interests in land for screening and removal, treats junkyards already in place when the controls took effect as nonconforming uses whose continued existence is limited rather than permanently protected, and supplies enforcement provisions along with definitions and a statement of purposes to guide interpretation. It also ties the state program to a cooperative federal arrangement, authorizing agreements with the United States and providing for the apportionment of federal funds.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.