54-5-502 - Part definitions.
54-5-502. Part definitions.
As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) Department means the department of transportation;
(2) Local agency means any county or incorporated city or town in this state;
(3) Local interstate or fully controlled access highway connecting route or connector means a roadway, or segment of a roadway, that will provide, or facilitate, appropriate ingress and egress, between an interstate highway or fully controlled access highway facility and a roadway that is of important benefit to a populous locality;
(4) Major thoroughfare system means the system of arterial and collector streets serving an urban-like developed area; and
(5) Project includes all of the phases of work required to produce a completed connector, including location, design, acquisition of rights-of-way, relocation of utility facilities, the cost of which is not the legal obligation of the owners thereof, and the construction or reconstruction of the connector.
[Impl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 9, § 3; Acts 1965, ch. 159, § 2; 1968, ch. 577, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1972, ch. 829, § 7; T.C.A., 54-570; Acts 1981, ch. 264, § 12; 1999, ch. 249, § 2.]