The state transportation commission is authorized and directed to do those things essential to plan, acquire by reasonable purchase or condemnation and construct a section or a part of a state or federally designated highway as a freeway or controlled access highway or to make any existing state or federally designated highway a freeway or a controlled-access highway. History: 1953 Comp., § 55-10-2, enacted by Laws 1957, ch. 234, § 2; 2003, ch. 142, § 82. ANNOTATIONSThe 2003 amendment, effective July 1, 2003, substituted 'state transportation commission' for 'state highway commission' in the section heading and the section. Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 39 Am. Jur. 2d Highways, Streets and Bridges §§ 32, 34, 207. 40 C.J.S. Highways § 179.
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