§ 54-17-109. Excepted Signs
The following signs are excepted from § 54-17-108: Official signs and notices, including directional and warning signs, authorized or required by law; Utility signs; and Signs other than outdoor advertising devices, as defined in § 54-21-102, if such signs: Have a sign face that does not exceed one hundred square feet (100 sq. ft.) in […]
§ 54-16-113. Removal of Vehicles, Spilled Cargo or Other Personal Property
The department of safety, department of transportation, or local law enforcement agency may immediately remove or cause to be removed any wrecked, abandoned, unattended, burned or partially dismantled vehicle, spilled cargo or other personal property from the roadway of a controlled-access highway if the vehicle, cargo or personal property is creating an obstruction or hazard […]
§ 54-17-101. Short Title
This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Scenic Highway System Act of 1971.”
§ 54-16-103. Construction and Design — Control of Traffic
The highway authorities of the state, counties, cities, and towns are authorized to design any controlled-access facility and to regulate, restrict, or prohibit access to best serve the traffic for which the facility is intended, and their determination of the design shall be final. In this connection, the highway authorities are authorized to divide and […]
§ 54-16-104. Acquisition of Property — Title Acquired
For the purpose of this chapter, the highway authorities of the state, counties, cities, and towns 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 the authorities are now or […]
§ 54-16-105. Grade Separation — Access Connections
The highway authority 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 have the authority to provide for the elimination of intersections at grade of controlled-access facilities with existing state […]
§ 54-16-106. Agreements Between Public Agencies
The highway authorities of the state, counties, cities, and towns 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.
§ 54-16-107. Control Over Local Service Roads
In connection with the development of any controlled-access facility, the highway authorities of the state, county, city or town 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 […]
§ 54-16-108. Rules of the Road — Violations — Penalties
It is unlawful for any person to: Drive a vehicle over, upon, or across any curb, central dividing section, or other separation or dividing line on controlled-access facilities; 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 line; Drive any […]
§ 54-16-109. Commercial Enterprises and Services on Controlled-Access Facility Prohibited — Exception — Establishment on Private Property Abutting Local Service Roads
No commercial enterprise or activity for serving motor vehicle users, other than emergency services for disabled vehicles, shall be authorized or conducted by the commissioner of transportation, any other official or agency of the state, or any political subdivision of the state on property designated as, or acquired for, or in connection with, a controlled-access […]