As used in this act [67-11-1 to 67-11-10 NMSA 1978], “controlled-access facility” means 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 no right or easement or only a controlled right or easement of access, light, air or view […]
A. 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; or (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, […]
The state transportation commission is authorized and directed to do those things essential to plan, acquire by reasonable purchase or condemnation and construct a section or a part of a state or federally designated highway as a freeway or controlled access highway or to make any existing state or federally designated highway a freeway or […]
The state transportation commission is authorized and directed to enter into an agreement with the authority exercising jurisdiction over the street or highway and, in accordance with the terms of this agreement, when essential, to close any street or highway or to reroute such street or highway over and under or to reroute to a […]
The highway authorities of the state or of any county, city, town or 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 […]
For the purposes of Chapter 67, Article 11 NMSA 1978, the state transportation commission alone or in agreement with any 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 purchase or condemnation in the same […]
Court proceedings necessary to acquire property or property rights for purposes of this act [67-11-1 to 67-11-10 NMSA 1978] shall take precedence over all other causes not involving the public interest in all courts, to the end that the provision of controlled-access facilities may be expedited. History: 1953 Comp., § 55-10-6, enacted by Laws 1957, […]
The state highway commission, alone, or in agreement with any county, city, town or village may designate and establish controlled-access highways as new and additional facilities or may designate and establish existing streets or highways as included within a controlled-access facility. The state or any of its subdivisions shall have authority to provide for the […]
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 act [67-11-1 […]
Commercial enterprises or activities may be conducted, permitted or authorized on department-owned land or land leased to or from the department, not including interstate highway rights of way, but including controlled-access facilities; or land owned or leased to or from the state, a county, city, town or village highway authority or by any other governmental […]
