(a) The highway authority may designate and establish controlled-access highways as new and additional facilities or may designate and establish an existing street or highway as included within a controlled-access facility.
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 54-16-105
Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
Highway: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
Road: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b)(1) The state or any of its subdivisions have the authority to provide for the elimination of intersections at grade of controlled-access facilities with existing state and county roads, and city or town streets, by grade separation of service road, or by closing off the roads and streets at the right-of-way boundary line of the controlled-access facility.(2) After the establishment of any controlled-access facility, no highway or street that is not part of the facility shall intersect the facility at grade.(c) No city or town street, county or state highway, or other public way shall be opened into or connected with the controlled-access facility without the consent and previous approval of the highway authority in the state, county, city or town having jurisdiction over the controlled-access facility. Consent and approval shall be given only if the public interest shall be served by the consent and approval.(d) Any abutting property owner claiming damages by virtue of the closing of any street or road on which the owner’s property abuts shall have a right of action as provided by § 29-16-123.
