PART V. OTHER RELATED MATERIAL: 5 U.S.C., Executive Departments and Government Officers and Part I. Highway Laws Public Law 85-767, 85th Congress, H.R. 12776, 72 Stat. 1 The laws relating to highways were revised, codified, and re- ! Stat. 885), as Title 23, United States Code, "Highways" which 42 44 44 45 25569o Chapter 2-Other Highways Sec. 201. Authorizations............ 202. Apportionment or allocation....... 204. Forest highways. 205. Forest development roads and trails. 207. Parkways_____ 208. Indian reservation roads. 209. Public lands highways__ 210. Defense access roads.. 211. Timber access road hearings. Chapter 3-General Provisions Sec. 301. Freedom from tolls... 302. State highway department. 303. Bureau organization.... 304. Participation by small-business enterprises. 306. Mapping....... 307. Research and planning.......... 308. Cooperation with Federal and State agencies and foreign 309. Cooperation with other American Republics. 311. Highway improvements strategically important to the 315. Rules, regulations, and recommendations____ 316. Consent by United States to conveyance of property 317. Appropriation for highway purposes of lands or interests 318. Highway relocation due to airport. 319. Landscaping... 320. Bridges on Federal dams___ Section 1. Title 23—Highways CHAPTER 1-FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS § 101. Definitions and declaration of policy (a) As used in this title, unless the context requires otherwiseThe term "apportionment" in accordance with section 104 of this title includes unexpended apportionments made under prior acts. The term "construction" means the supervising, inspecting, actual building, and all expenses incidental to the construction or reconstruction of a highway, including locating, surveying, and mapping (including the establishment of temporary and permanent geodetic markers in accordance with specifications of the Coast and Geodetic Survey in the Department of Commerce), costs of rights-of-way, and elimination of hazards of railwaygrade crossings. The term "county" includes corresponding units of government under any other name in States which do not have county organ izations, and likewise in those States in which the county government does not have jurisdiction over highways it may be construed to mean any local government unit vested with jurisdiction over local highways. The term "forest road or trail" means a road or trail wholly or partly within or adjacent to and serving the national forests. The term "forest development roads and trails" means those forest roads or trails of primary importance for the protection, administration, and utilization of the national forests, or where necessary, for the use and development of the resources upon which communities within or adjacent to the national forests are dependent. The term "forest highway" means a forest road which is of primary importance to the States, counties, or communities within, adjoining, or adjacent to the national forests. The term "highway" includes roads, streets, and parkways, and also includes rights-of-way, bridges, railroad-highway crossings, tunnels, drainage structures, signs, guardrails, and protective structures, in connection with highways. It further includes that portion of any interstate or international bridge or tunnel and the approaches thereto, the cost of which is assumed by a State highway department including such facilities as may be required by the United States Customs and Immigration Services in connection with the operation of an international bridge or tunnel. The term "Federal-aid highways" means highways located on one of the Federal-aid systems described in section 103 of this title. The term "Indian reservation roads and bridges" means roads and bridges that are located within an Indian reservation or that provide access to an Indian reservation or Indian land, and that are jointly designated by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary as a part of the Indian Bureau road system. The term "maintenance" means the preservation of the entire highway, including surface, shoulders, roadsides, structures, and such traffic-control devices as are necessary for its safe and efficient utilization. The term "park roads and trails" means those roads or trails, including the necessary bridges, located in national parks or monuments, now or hereafter established, or in other areas administered by the National Park Service of the Department of the Interior (excluding parkways authorized by Acts of Congress) and also including approach roads to national parks or monuments authorized by the Act of January 31, 1931 (46 Stat. 1053), as amended. The term "parkway" as used in chapter 2 of this title means a parkway authorized by an Act of Congress on lands to which title is vested in the United States. The term "project" means an undertaking to construct a particular portion of a highway, or if the context so implies, the particular portion of a highway so constructed. The term "project agreement" means the formal instrument to be executed by the State highway department and the Secretary as required by the provisions of subsection (a) of section 110 of this title. The term "public lands highways" means main highways through unappropriated or unreserved public lands, nontaxable Indian lands, or other Federal reservations. The term "rural areas" means all areas of a State not included in urban areas. The term "Secretary" means Secretary of Commerce. The term "State" means any one of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico.1 The term "State funds" includes funds raised under the authority of the State or any political or other subdivision thereof, and made available for expenditure under the direct control of the State highway department. The term "State highway department" means that department, commission, board, or official of any State charged by its laws with the responsibility for highway construction. The term "Federal-aid system" means any one of the Federalaid highway systems described in section 103 of this title. The term "Federal-aid primary system" means the Federal-aid highway system described in subsection (b) of section 103 of this title. The term "Federal-aid secondary system" means the Federalaid highway system described in subsection (c) of section 103 of this title. The term "Interstate System" means the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways described in subsection (d) of section 103 of this title. The term "urban area" means an area including and adjacent to a municipality or other urban place having a population of five thousand or more, as determined by the latest available Federal census, with boundaries to be fixed by a State highway department subject to the approval of the Secretary. (b) It is hereby declared to be in the national interest to accelerate the construction of the Federal-aid highway systems, including the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, since many of such highways, or portions thereof, are in fact inadequate to meet the needs of local and interstate comfor the national and civil defense. merce, It is hereby declared that the prompt and early completion of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, so named because of its primary importance to the national defense and hereafter referred to as the "Interstate System", is essential to the national interest and is one of the most important objectives of this Act. It is the intent of Congress that the Interstate System be completed as nearly as practicable over the period of availability of the thirteen years' appropriations authorized for the purpose of expediting its construction, reconstruction, or improvement, inclusive of necessary tunnels and bridges, through the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, under section 108(b) of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 (70 Stat. 374), and that the entire System in all States be brought to simultaneous completion. Insofar as possible in consonance with this objective, exist 1 Amended by Sec. 21 (e) (1) of the Act approved June 25, 1959 (73 Stat. 141) and by Sec. 17(a) of the Act approved July 12, 1960 (74 Stat. 411). |