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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