40-404. FEEDER HIGHWAYS. (1) The board is authorized to:
(a) Construct, repair and maintain any feeder highway which in the opinion of the board will increase the use of a turnpike project to which the highway is a feeder;
(b) Assume maintenance and repair operations of an existing highway which is needed as a feeder highway. Before exercising these powers, consent of local authority exercising jurisdiction over the existing highway must be obtained; and
(c) Realign an existing highway and build additional sections of highway over new alignment in connection with the existing highway.
(2) Where a feeder highway is constructed over new alignment, the board is granted the same powers concerning construction as is granted in connection with the construction of the turnpike project. Any feeder highway, eighty per cent (80%) or more of which is built over new alignment, shall for the purposes of this section be deemed to be a new feeder highway.
(3) Where the board has constructed a new feeder highway, it shall have the obligation to maintain and repair the new feeder highway.
(4) No toll shall be charged for transit between points on any feeder or new feeder highway.
History:
[40-404, added 1985, ch. 253, sec. 2, p. 607.]