Private Acts of 1929 Chapter 491

SECTION 1. That Boards of County Commissioners in Counties of this State having a population of more than 220,000, according to the Federal Census of 1920 or any subsequent Federal Census, be and are hereby authorized and empowered to make and establish reasonable rules and regulations for the establishment, operation and maintenance of automobile garages, repair shops, storage places and junk yards where old automobiles or automobile parts are stored, located on or near public highways in such Counties, so as to preserve and protect the safety, health and morals of the public, and especially of those using the highways at or near the location of such automobile garages, repair shops, storage places or junk yards where old automobiles or automobile parts are stored, and those who patronize same.

SECTION 2. That the establishment, maintenance or operation of any automobile garage, repair shop, storage place or junk yard where old automobiles or automobile parts are stored, in violation of or in conflict with any schedule of regulations adopted by any Board of County Commissioners as authorized by this Act, shall be and is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, which may be punished or abated as such.

SECTION 3. That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed: April 1, 1929.