Section 23-3-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) INTERSTATE HIGHWAY. Any highway now included or which shall hereafter be included as a part of the national system of interstate highways, selected by joint action of the State Department of […]
Section 23-3-2 Declaration of policy. It is the declared policy of this state to facilitate the flow of traffic and promote public safety by controlling access to highways included in the national system of interstate highways as selected by joint action of the State Department of Transportation and the United States Bureau of Public Roads. […]
Section 23-3-3 Authority to plan, etc., facilities; regulation, etc., thereof. The Director of Transportation, acting alone or in cooperation with counties, cities, towns or any federal, state or local agency or any other state having authority to participate in the construction and maintenance of highways, is authorized to plan, designate, establish, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, […]
Section 23-3-4 Design authority; commercial establishments. (a) The Director of Transportation is 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 authority is authorized to divide and separate any controlled access […]
Section 23-3-5 Acquisition of property and property rights. (a) For the purpose of this chapter, the highway authorities of the state, acting alone or through the 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 […]
Section 23-3-6 Elimination of intersections at grade. The state or any of its subdivisions shall have authority to provide for the elimination of intersections at grade of controlled access facilities with existing state or county roads, and city or town streets by grade separation of service road or by closing off such roads and streets […]
Section 23-3-7 Local service roads and streets. In connection with the development of any controlled access facility, the Director of Transportation is 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 if, in […]
Section 23-3-8 Agreements with federal or local governments. The Director of Transportation is authorized to enter into agreements with counties, cities and towns or 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 […]
