R.C.S.A. § 13a-123d-2
Definitions (Repealed)
Cite as Conn. Agencies Regs. § 13a-123d-2
As used in sections 13a-123d-1 to 13a-123d-3 inclusive:
(a) The following shall be defined as provided in section 13a-123c of the 1969 supplement
to the general statutes:
(1) Highway, (2) federal interstate system; (3) federal primary system; (4) junk; (5)
automobile graveyards; (6) junkyard; (7) scrap metal processing facility, and (8)
effective control;
(b) "Industrial zone" means a zone defined as such in the zoning ordinance of the town
or municipality where the affected land or area is located;
(c) "Unzoned industrial area" means the land within one thousand feet of the nearest edge
of a highway and within one thousand feet of a regularly used building, parking lot,
storage or processing area of an industrial activity, which is (1) located on the
same side of the highway as the principal part of said activity, and (2) not predominantly
used for residential or commercial purposes, and (3) not zoned by state or local law,
regulation or ordinance;
(d) "Industrial activities" means all activities in actual use within one thousand feet
of the nearest edge of the right of way of a highway in the manufacturing, fabricating,
prefabricating or storing of goods or materials and other activities recognized as
industrial by the zoning ordinance of the town or the commissioner in which such activity
is located, except that none of the following shall be considered industrial activities:
(1) Outdoor advertising structures; (2) agricultural, forestry, ranching, grazing,
farming and related activities, including, but not limited to, wayside fresh produce
stands; (3) activities normally and regularly in operation less than three months
of the year; (4) transient or temporary activities; (5) activities not visible from
traffic lanes of the main traveled way; (6) activities conducted in a building principally
used as a residence; (7) railroad tracks, minor sidings and passenger depots; (8)
junkyards and scrap metal processing facilities;
(e) "Maintain" means to allow to exist;
(f) "Main traveled way" means the portion of roadway for the movement of vehicles, exclusive
of shoulders, on which through traffic is carried. In the case of a divided highway,
the travelway of each of the separate roadways for traffic in opposite directions
is a main traveled way and does not include such facilities as frontage roads, turning
roads or parking areas.
(g) "Visible" means capable of being seen without visual aid by a person of normal visual
acuity.