Part Definitions

  1. Law
  2. Tennessee Code
  3. Highways, Bridges and Ferries
  4. State Highways
  5. Local Interstate and Fully Controlled Access Highway Connector Act
  6. Part Definitions

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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.


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