Section 54-5-503 - Interstate connecting routes authorized

In order for the citizens of the state to get the greatest possible use from the interstate highway system or fully controlled access highways, the department is authorized to use any powers granted under any general law to establish a system of connectors so located and spaced as to furnish adequate access to the interstate highway system or fully controlled access highways from the existing road and street networks along the interstate system or fully controlled access highways.Impl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 9, § 3; Acts 1965, ch. 159, § 3; impl. am. Acts 1972, ch. 829, § 7; T.C.A., § 54-571; Acts 1999, ch. 249, § 3.