Tennessee § 54-16-103 - Construction and design — Control of traffic.
Full text of Tennessee Tennessee Code Annotated § 54-16-103 — Construction and design — Control of traffic., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 54-16-103. Construction and design — Control of traffic.
The highway authorities of the state, counties, cities, and towns are authorized to design any controlled-access facility and to regulate, restrict, or prohibit access to best serve the traffic for which the facility is intended, and their determination of the design shall be final. In this connection, the highway authorities are authorized to divide and separate any controlled-access facility into separate roadways by the construction of raised curbings, central dividing sections, or other physical separations, or by designating the separate roadways by signs, markers, stripes, and other devices. No person shall have any right of ingress or egress to, from or across controlled-access facilities to or from abutting lands, except at designated points at which access may be permitted, upon terms and conditions that may be specified from time to time. Acts 1955, ch. 147, § 3; T.C.A., § 54-2003. Law Reviews. Real Property — 1961 Tennessee Survey (Thomas G. Roady, Jr.), 14 Vand. L. Rev. 1387.
Source: official Tennessee text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 54-16-103 ("Construction and design — Control of traffic.") is part of the Tennessee Code Annotated, the codified statutory law of Tennessee. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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