Kansas Statutes

Chapter 68: Roads And Bridges

PART III.--MISCELLANEOUS

Article 19: Controlled Access Facilities

Statutes:

• 68-1901: Definitions.
• 68-1902: Authority to establish controlled access facilities.
• 68-1903: Acquisition of property and property rights.
• 68-1904: New and existing facilities; grade crossing eliminations.
• 68-1905: Frontage roads.
• 68-1906:

• 68-1901: Definitions. When used in this act:

        (a)   "A controlled access facility" means a highway, road or street especially designed to expedite and control through and local traffic, and over, from or to which highway, road or street, owners or occupants of abutting property shall have only a controlled right or easement of access, light, air or view. Such highways, roads or streets may be opened to use by all customary forms of street and highway traffic, or they may be parkways from which designated vehicles shall be excluded.

        (b)   "Highway authorities" means the secretary of transportation and the board of county commissioners of any county or governing body of any incorporated city acting individually or collectively.

        (c)   "Frontage road" means a highway, road or street which is auxiliary to and located on the side of another highway, road or street for service to abutting property and adjacent areas and for control of access to such other highway, road or street.

        History:   L. 1953, ch. 307, § 1; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 167; Aug. 15.

• 68-1902: Authority to establish controlled access facilities. The state, county or city highway authorities, acting alone, or cooperating with each other or with any federal, state or local authority, or any other state, are hereby authorized to design, designate, establish, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, construct and maintain controlled access facilities wherever such highway authorities determine that traffic conditions, present or future, justify such facilities, and said highway authorities may regulate and restrict the use of such facilities by the various classes of vehicles or traffic in a manner consistent with the purposes and provisions of this act. The highway authorities may so regulate, restrict or prohibit access to a controlled access facility so as to best serve the traffic for which such facility is intended.

        History:   L. 1953, ch. 307, § 2; April 2.

• 68-1903: Acquisition of property and property rights. The highway authorities, jointly or severally, may acquire the desired private or public property, including rights of access, light, air or view for controlled access facilities, by gift, devise, purchase or condemnation, in the same manner as now or hereafter authorized by law for acquiring property or property rights in connection with highways, roads and streets within their respective jurisdictions.

        History:   L. 1953, ch. 307, § 3; April 2.

• 68-1904: New and existing facilities; grade crossing eliminations. The highway authorities may designate and establish controlled access highways as new and additional facilities, or an existing street or highway may be included within such facility, and they may provide for the elimination of intersections at grade with existing state or county roads and city streets or other public ways if the public interests shall be served thereby, but no city street, county road or state highway or other public way shall be opened into or connected with such controlled access facility without the consent of the highway authority having jurisdiction over such controlled access facility, and the respective highway authorities are hereby authorized to make all necessary agreements between themselves and the federal government as may be necessary to fully perform and fulfill the purposes and provisions of this act.

        History:   L. 1953, ch. 307, § 4; April 2.

• 68-1905: Frontage roads. The highway authorities, in order to carry out the purposes and provisions of this act, are authorized to design, designate, establish, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, construct, and maintain frontage roads and to exercise the same jurisdiction thereof as is authorized over controlled access facilities under this act, and such frontage roads shall be separated from the controlled access facility as may be deemed proper and necessary by the respective highway authorities.

        History:   L. 1953, ch. 307, § 5; April 2.

• 68-1906:

        History:   L. 1953, ch. 307, § 6; L. 1967, ch. 355, § 1; L. 1981, ch. 44, § 2; Repealed, L. 1983, ch. 40, § 2; April 14.