As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) “Department” means the department of transportation;

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 54-5-502

  • Collector: includes any person entrusted with the collection of public revenue. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • 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. See Tennessee Code 54-5-502
  • Department: means the department of transportation. See Tennessee Code 54-5-502
  • 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
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • 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
(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.
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