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Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-16-101

“Controlled-access facility” defined

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Evans v. Burnley (1988)

Most recently applied in Evans v. Burnley (May 1988)

Acts 1955, ch. 147, § 1; T.C.A., § 54-2001.

(1) For the purposes of this chapter, “controlled-access facility” means a highway or street specially designed for through traffic, and over, from or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right or easement of access from abutting properties.

(2) The highways or streets may be parkways, from which trucks, buses, and other commercial vehicles shall be excluded; or they may be freeways open to use by all customary forms of street and highway traffic.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.