For the purposes of this chapter, “controlled-access facility” means a highway or street specially designed for through traffic, and over, from or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right or easement of access from abutting properties. The highways or streets may be parkways, from which trucks, buses, and […]
The highway authorities of the state, counties, cities, and towns, 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 authorized to plan, designate, establish, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, maintain, and provide controlled-access […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Interstate Route 440 in Davidson County is designated as a parkway.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the commissioner of transportation is directed to include as a part of all signage at interstate rest areas in the state information that indicates the mileage to the next closest interstate rest area as a means of assistance to the tourists who travel our great state. […]
The department of transportation may issue non-exclusive permits, on a competitively neutral and non-discriminatory basis, allowing the longitudinal installation of underground fiber optic cable lines and related facilities within the rights-of-way of controlled-access highways on the state highway system or federal interstate highway system, or both, subject to reasonable and appropriate regulations to protect the […]
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 […]
