The department shall lay out, construct and maintain a system of state and state aid highways substantially as described in chapters 1 to 19. All persons employed by the department under chapters 1 to 19 are authorized to the extent necessary for surveys and preliminary engineering to enter and cross all lands within, adjoining and adjacent to the area to be surveyed.
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 23, § 701
Establishment of systems; surveys
PL 1971, c. 593, §22 (AMD).
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