§ 65-5-1. Declaration of policy

The legislature hereby finds, determines, and declares that this chapter is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, and for the promotion of the general welfare.

§ 65-5-11. Preference of condemnation cases

Court proceedings necessary to acquire property or property rights for purposes of this chapter shall take precedence over all other causes not involving the public interest in all courts, to the end that the provisions of controlled-access facilities may be expedited.

§ 65-5-13. Grade-crossing eliminations

The highway authority of the state, county, city, town, or village may designate and establish controlled-access highways as new and additional facilities or may designate and establish an existing street or highway as included within a controlled-access facility. The state or any of its subdivisions shall have authority to provide for the elimination of intersections […]

§ 65-5-15. Authority of local units to consent

The highway authorities of the state, city, county, town, or village are authorized to enter into agreements with each other, or with the federal government, respecting the financing, planning, establishment, improvement, maintenance, use, regulation, or vacation of controlled-access facilities or other public ways in their respective jurisdictions, to facilitate the purposes of this chapter.

§ 65-5-17. Local service roads

In connection with the development of any controlled-access facility, the state, county, city, town, or village highway authorities are authorized to plan, designate, establish, use, regulate, alter, improve, maintain, and vacate local service roads and streets or to designate as local service roads and streets any existing road or street, and to exercise jurisdiction over […]

§ 65-5-19. Penalties for unlawful use

It is unlawful for any person (1) to drive a vehicle over, upon, or across any curb, central dividing section, or other separation or dividing line on controlled-access facilities; (2) to make a left turn or a semicircular or U-turn except through an opening provided for that purpose in the dividing curb section, separation, or […]

§ 65-5-21. Automotive service stations prohibited within right of way

No automotive service station or other commercial enterprise for serving motor vehicle users shall be constructed or located within the right of way of, or on publicly-owned or publicly-leased land acquired or used for or in connection with, a limited access facility or a controlled-access facility.

§ 65-5-23. Legislative intent

It is the intent of the legislature that this chapter provide additional and supplemental means of designating, establishing, altering, improving, and maintaining controlled-access facilities, and it is not intended to repeal nor in any way change any other provision of statute authorizing the establishment, control, and maintenance of limited access facilities, but is supplemental thereto.

§ 65-5-3. Definitions

For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases as used herein, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following meanings: “Controlled-access facility”-A highway or street especially designed for through traffic, and over, from, or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have […]

§ 65-5-5. Authority to establish

The highway authorities of the state, counties, cities, towns, and villages, acting alone or in cooperation with each other or with any federal, state, or local agency or any other state having authority to participate in the construction and maintenance of highways, are hereby authorized to plan, designate, establish, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, maintain, and […]

§ 65-5-7. Design

The highway authorities of the state, county, city, town, and village are authorized to so design any controlled-access facility and to so regulate, restrict, or prohibit access as to best serve the traffic for which such facility is intended. In this connection such highway authorities are authorized to divide and separate any controlled-access facility into […]

§ 65-5-9. Acquisition of property and property rights

For the purposes of this chapter, the highway authorities of the state, county, city, town, or village may acquire private or public property and property rights for controlled-access facilities and service roads, including rights of access, air, view, and light, by gift, devise, purchase, or condemnation in the same manner as such units are now […]