2018 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 67 - Highways
Article 11 - Controlled-Access Facilities
Section 67-11-2 - Authority of state transportation commission.
The state transportation commission is authorized and directed to do those things essential to plan, acquire by reasonable purchase or condemnation and construct a section or a part of a state or federally designated highway as a freeway or controlled access highway or to make any existing state or federally designated highway a freeway or a controlled-access highway.
History: 1953 Comp., § 55-10-2, enacted by Laws 1957, ch. 234, § 2; 2003, ch. 142, § 82.
The 2003 amendment, effective July 1, 2003, substituted "state transportation commission" for "state highway commission" in the section heading and the section.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 39 Am. Jur. 2d Highways, Streets and Bridges §§ 32, 34, 207.
40 C.J.S. Highways § 179.
