The department of transportation has full power, and it is made its duty, through its highway engineers or otherwise, to designate a system of state highways, to designate the road or roads to be constructed, repaired, or maintained by the use of the funds mentioned in chapter 2 of this title, and to lay out and locate all such roads.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-5-101
System of state highways — Designation by department for construction, repair or maintenance
Acts 1917, ch. 74, § 5; Shan., § 1720a29b16 (p. 6549); Shan
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