2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 177 - STATE AND FEDERAL HIGHWAYS -- LIMITED ACCESS FACILITIES -- TURNPIKES -- ROAD BONDS -- BILLBOARDS -- RECYCLERS 177.020 State primary roads to be designated and controlled by the Department of Highways -- Notice to fiscal court and affected citizens -- Rural secondary road system -- Maintenance -- Administrative regulations.
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177.020 State primary roads to be designated and controlled by the
Department of Highways -- Notice to fiscal court and affected citizens -Rural secondary road system -- Maintenance -- Administrative
regulations.
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The state primary road system shall consist of such public roads and city
streets within the state as the Department of Highways determines shall be
established, constructed, or maintained by the Department of Highways.
The department shall, in its discretion, determine which public roads, or city
streets, shall be established, constructed, or maintained by it, and shall
determine the type of construction or maintenance for that road or city street.
In the establishment of the state primary road system, the Department of
Highways is authorized to select new routes, deviate from an existing route
whenever it deems such deviation proper, eliminate from the state primary
system roads or city streets which have been replaced as proper part of the
system by the construction of a new facility or the selection of a new route. No
permanent ingress or egress ramp of the state primary road system on fully
controlled access facilities shall be closed, except for repairs, unless a public
hearing is first held in the area to be affected by the closing. The Department of
Highways shall, at least twenty (20) days before the hearing, advertise in a
newspaper of general circulation in the area to be affected by the closing, the
date, time, and place of the hearing.
Prior to the advertisement for bids on any highway construction project, the
Department of Highways shall meet with the fiscal court in the jurisdiction of the
construction project for the purpose of advising the fiscal court of any state
road or road segment which the department may seek to eliminate from the
state primary road system upon completion of that highway construction
project. The requirement of this subsection shall be in addition to the
requirements of subsection (5) of this section.
The department shall notify the fiscal court of the county at least four (4)
months before it eliminates a road, road segment, bridge, or street in that
county from the state primary road system. Upon receiving notice, the fiscal
court may reject title and notify the department that the road shall not become
part of the county road system. If the fiscal court declines, the department shall
give notice to all private persons entitled to a necessary access over this road
of their rights under this chapter; and, by petition of any private party entitled to
such access, the road shall be deemed a discontinued state road and shall be
closed to public use but remain open in accordance with its condition and use
for the access of the private parties involved. In the absence of such petition,
title shall be transferred to the owner or owners of the tract or tracts of land to
which the road originally belonged.
As used in this section, the term "rural secondary roads" shall mean the
system of roads in this state which are usually considered farm-to-market roads
and that are classified as part of the rural secondary road system by the
Department of Highways. The roads in the rural secondary system shall be
maintained with the proceeds of the provisions of KRS 177.320(1) and in no
case shall the rural secondary system, as defined in this subsection, be less
than eleven thousand eight hundred (11,800) miles.
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The establishment, construction, or maintenance of the state primary road
system shall be under the direction and control of the Department of Highways.
The commissioner of highways is authorized to adopt regulations necessary to
the administration of this authority.
Effective:June 25, 2009
History: Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 13, sec. 9, effective June 25, 2009. -Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 98, sec. 6, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended
1992 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 1, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts
ch. 174, sec. 18, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 243,
sec. 1, effective July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. IV,
sec. 20(1). -- Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 242, sec. 1. -- Created 1964 Ky. Acts
ch. 23, secs. 2 and 3.
History for former KRS 177.020: Repealed 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 23, sec. 3. -Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky.
Stat. secs. 4356t-5, 4356t-17-2a, 4356t-17-2b, 4356t-17-2c, 4356t-17-2d.
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