The department is authorized to do any and all things necessary to lay out, acquire and construct any section or portion of a State highway as a freeway or to make any existing State highway a freeway.
Cal. Sts. & High. Code § 100.1
The Department of Transportation
Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 687.
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