Section 11-49-104
Portion of street to remain open to travel and traffic.
A sufficiently ample portion of the highway or thoroughfare which such street in whole or in part constitutes shall remain open to accommodate the travel and traffic of the owners of abutting property and of the general public, and not more than one half of the width of such highway or thoroughfare shall be vacated for the purposes mentioned in Section 11-49-100.
(Acts 1909, No. 67, p. 102; Code 1923, §2239; Code 1940, T. 37, §664.)