New Mexico § 67-11-9 - Commercial enterprises or activities

§ 67-11-9. Commercial enterprises or activities

Commercial enterprises or activities may be conducted, permitted or authorized on

department-owned land or land leased to or from the department, not including interstate

highway rights of way, but including controlled-access facilities; or land owned

or leased to or from the state, a county, city, town or village highway authority

or by any other governmental agency for the purpose of providing goods and services

to the public, including gasoline service stations or other commercial establishments

that may be built on department-owned land or the property acquired for or in connection

with the controlled-access facilities. In connection with the development of any department-owned land, including a controlled-access

facility, the state, county, city, town or village highway authorities are authorized

to plan, designate, establish, use, regulate, alter, improve, maintain and vacate

local service roads and streets or to designate as local service roads and streets

any existing road or street in such manner as to facilitate the establishment and

operation of competitive gasoline service stations and other commercial enterprises

on private property abutting the service roads and streets. The state transportation commission is authorized to exercise jurisdiction over

service roads and streets in the same manner as is authorized over controlled-access

facilities under the terms of Chapter 67, Article 11 NMSA 1978 . The local service roads and streets shall be of appropriate design and shall be

separated from the controlled-access facility proper by means of all devices designated

as necessary or desirable by the proper authority.