54-5-202 - Width and character of highways in municipalities.

54-5-202. Width and character of highways in municipalities.

The streets constructed, reconstructed, improved and maintained by the state shall be of a width and type that the department deems proper, but the width so constructed, reconstructed, improved and maintained shall not be less than eighteen feet (18¢); and, in the case of resurfacing and maintenance, from curb to curb where curbs exist, or the full width of the roadway where no curbs exist.

[Acts 1929, ch. 42, § 2; Code 1932, § 3243; Acts 1947, ch. 123, § 2; C. Supp. 1950, § 3243; impl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 9, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 54-532; Acts 1981, ch. 264, § 12.]