Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 54 > Chapter 5 > Part 5 - Local Interstate and Fully Controlled Access Highway Connector Act

• 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
• Local agency: means any county or incorporated city or town in this state. See Tennessee Code 54-5-502
• Major thoroughfare system: means the system of arterial and collector streets serving an urban-like developed area. See Tennessee Code 54-5-502
• 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.
• 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. See Tennessee Code 54-5-502
• 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
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105