§ 136-89.55. Local service roads. - North Carolina Statutes

§136‑89.55.  Local service roads.

In connection with thedevelopment of any controlled‑access facility the Department ofTransportation is authorized to plan, designate, establish, use, regulate,alter, improve, maintain, and vacate local service or frontage roads andstreets or to designate as local service or frontage roads and streets anyexisting road or street, and to exercise jurisdiction over service or frontageroads in the same manner as is authorized over controlled‑accessfacilities under the terms of this Article, if in its opinion such localservice  or frontage roads and streets are necessary or desirable; provided,however that after a local service or frontage road has been established, thesame shall not be vacated or abandoned in such a manner as to reduce access tothe facility without the consent of the abutting property owners or the paymentof just compensation, so long as the controlled‑access facility ismaintained as such facility, and the Department of Transportation shall nothave any authority to control or restrict the right of access of abuttingproperty owners from their property to such local service or frontage roads orstreets without the property owners' consent or the payment of justcompensation, except such authority as the Department of Transportation haswith respect to primary and secondary roads under the police power. Such localservice or frontage roads or streets shall be of appropriate design, and shallbe separated from the controlled‑access facility proper by means of alldevices designated as necessary or desirable. (1957, c. 993, s. 8; 1969, c.795; 1973, c. 507, s. 5; 1977, c. 464, s. 7.1.)