318.1 - DEFINITIONS.

        318.1  DEFINITIONS.         As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:         1.  "Department" means the state department of transportation.         2.  "Highway authority" means the county board of supervisors,      in the case of secondary roads, and the department, in the case of      primary roads.         3.  "Highway right-of-way" means the total area of land,      whether reserved by public ownership or easement, that is reserved      for the operation and maintenance of a legally established public      roadway.  This area shall be deemed to consist of two portions, a      central traveled way including the shoulders and that remainder on      both sides of the road, between the outside shoulder edges and the      outer boundaries of the right-of-way.         4.  "Obstruction" means an obstacle in the highway      right-of-way or an impediment or hindrance which impedes, opposes, or      interferes with free passage along the highway right-of-way, not      including utility structures installed in accordance with an approved      permit.         5.  "Officer" means any department employee, county employee,      or elected county official.         6.  "Traveled portion of the right-of-way" means that area of      the highway right-of-way, not including the shoulders, on which      vehicles normally travel.         7.  "Utility" means all private, public, municipal, or      cooperative owned systems for water, sewer, natural gas, electric,      telegraph, telephone, transit, pipeline, heating plants, railroads,      bridges, street lights, or traffic control signals.         8.  "Utility structures" means the aboveground devices,      required by a utility, including poles, lines, and wires, used for      telephone, electric, natural gas, and other distribution or      transmission purposes, and natural gas and electrical substations.      
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         2006 Acts, ch 1097, §1