54-5-403 - Industrial highways authorized. - Tennessee Statutes

54-5-403. Industrial highways authorized.

(a)  In order to facilitate the development and expansion of industry and to provide access to industrial areas, the department, with the approval of the governor, is authorized to use any powers granted under any general law to construct and maintain industrial highways when there is a finding by the department that the highways are clearly necessary to secure the development of an industrial site or park or lessen serious congestion and hazards or facilitate the movement of persons, commodities or raw materials, and no other feasible means exist for accomplishing these objectives.

(b)  Municipalities are authorized to use any powers granted to them to participate in the construction and maintenance of the highways.

(c)  It is the intent of this part that a county or an incorporated city or town, as the case may be, shall be responsible for the local share of the highways within the area of its jurisdiction.

(d)  The highways may be designated as limited access highways under chapter 16 of this title.

[Acts 1959, ch. 264, § 3; impl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 9, § 3; impl. am. Acts 1972, ch. 829, § 7; T.C.A., § 54-548; Acts 1981, ch. 264, § 12.]