CHECKLIST
TO DETERMINE IF THE OPERATION MEETS THE DEFINITION OF A SALVAGE YARD FOR
THE
INITIAL INSPECTION (SY.A 2)
DATE INSPECTED:__________ QUALIFIED INSPECTOR: ___________
This checklist is intended to document the initial inspection and to determine if the operation meets
the definition of a salvage yard.
**This form is not to be used during the Hearing for approval of Part A of the Certificate of Approved
Location application.**
A “Salvage Yard” is an operation that meets any one of the following criteria:
Any place of outdoor storage or deposit for storing, keeping, processing, buying, or selling junk or
as a scrap metal processing facility.
Premises are used as a “scrap metal processing facility,” meaning a manufacturing business which
purchases, and processes scrap metal from any source and re-sells the metal after processing,
generally to wholesale scrap markets. Scrap processing includes the collecting, sorting, storage,
smelting, melting, crushing or compacting of any scrap metal as a business operation.
An outdoor area including a yard, field, or other outdoor area on a property owned or controlled
by a person and used or maintained for storing or depositing four or more junk motor vehicles.
“Junk motor vehicles” means a discarded, dismantled, wrecked, scrapped, or ruined motor vehicle or
parts thereof, which are allowed to remain unregistered or uninspected for a period of 90 days from
the date of discovery.
A salvage yard is not:
 an area used by an automobile hobbyist to store, organize, restore, or display motor vehicles or
parts of such vehicles, provided that the hobbyist’s activities comply with all applicable
federal, state, and municipal law;
 an area used for the storage of motor vehicles exempt from registration under chapter 7 of Title
23: wood splitters and pole dinkeys;
 an area owned or used by a dealer registered under 23 V.S.A. § 453 for the storage of motor
vehicles; or
 an area used or maintained for the parking or storage of operational commercial motor vehicles,
as that term is defined in 23 V.S.A. § 4103(4), that are temporarily out of service and
unregistered but are expected to be used in the future by the vehicle operator or owner.
 a garage where wrecked or disabled motor vehicles are stored for less than 90 days for
inspection or repairs.
 a facility permitted by ANR as solid waste facility