§ 49-70. Designating means of access to certain highways.

(a) A Freeway and Controlled Major Highway are defined in Section 49-31.

(b) If any existing County road is classified as a Freeway or Controlled Major Highway:

(1) The Director of Transportation may, by agreement or condemnation, restrict or limit the right of any owner of land abutting the Freeway or Controlled Major Highway to lay out or construct any new means of access to, from or across the abutting land to or from the Freeway or Controlled Major Highway or to enlarge or extend any existing means of access. The Director may designate points where access is permitted, or permit changes in existing means of access, consistent with any applicable master plan, on specified terms and conditions.

(2) The Director may close any existing means of access to, from, or across abutting land to or from the Freeway or Controlled Major Highway by agreement or condemnation, consistent with any applicable master plan. (1966 L.M.C., ch. 13, § 1; 1971 L.M.C., ch. 3, § 38; , § 1; , § 1.)

Editor’s note—, § 3, states: Sec. 3. Any regulation in effect when this Act takes effect that implements a function transferred to another Department or Office under Section 1 of this Act continues in effect, but any reference in any regulation to the Department from which the function was transferred must be treated as referring to the Department to which the function is transferred. The transfer of a function under this Act does not affect any right of a party to any legal proceeding begun before this Act took effect.