226.750. The state highways and transportation commission ishereby authorized to acquire, maintain, and improve areasabutting interstate highways and other highways in the primarysystem bearing federal designations for the restoration,preservation, and enhancement of scenic beauty and for rest andrecreational areas for accommodation of the traveling public.
(L. 1965 2d Ex. Sess. p. 907 ยง 1)(1972) This section does not authorize the state highway commission to provide rest areas abutting state routes which are neither interstate highways nor federally designated highways. State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Pinkley (A.), 474 S.W.2d 46.