Title 19 — Highways and Ferries
16 chapters · 239 sections in this title.
AS 19.20.010 Connecting highways.
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(a) The department may enter into cooperative agreements with a municipality for the construction or maintenance of a connecting highway that is part of the state highway system and located within the municipality. (b) The jurisdiction, control, and duty of the department and mun…
AS 19.20.015 Local control of state transportation corridors.
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(a) A municipality, by resolution of its governing body, may request of the department the assumption of the department's responsibilities relating to planning of transportation corridors that are to be located within the boundaries or operating area of the municipality. After re…
AS 19.20.017 Local control of traffic control systems.
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(a) A municipality, by resolution of its governing body, may request the transfer to it of the responsibility of the department for the operation and maintenance of a traffic control system that regulates the flow of traffic at intersections of highways and roads maintained by th…
AS 19.20.020 Authority to establish controlled-access facilities.
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The department and a municipality, acting alone or in cooperation with each other or with a federal agency participating in the construction and maintenance of highways, may plan, designate, establish, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, maintain, and provide controlled-access faci…
AS 19.20.030 Design of controlled-access facility.
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The department and a municipality may design a controlled-access facility and may regulate, restrict, or prohibit access to best serve the traffic for which the facility is intended. The department and the municipality may divide and separate a controlled-access facility into sep…
AS 19.20.040 Acquisition of property and property rights.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 19.20.050 Grade-crossing eliminations.
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The department and a municipality may designate and establish controlled-access highways as new and additional facilities, or may designate and establish an existing highway as included within a controlled-access facility. The department and the municipality may provide for the e…
AS 19.20.060 Participation in financing, planning, and regulation.
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The department and a municipality may enter into an agreement with each other or with the federal government for the financing, planning, establishment, improvement, maintenance, use regulation, or vacation of controlled-access facilities or other public ways in their respective …
AS 19.20.070 Local service highways.
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In the development of a controlled-access facility, the department and the municipality may plan, designate, establish, use, regulate, alter, improve, maintain, and vacate local service highways and exercise jurisdiction over them in the same manner authorized for the exercise of…
AS 19.20.080 Municipal master highway plan.
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A municipality of over 5,000 population, according to the latest available census, together with the department, shall develop and adopt a master highway plan, which shall insure the proper location and integration of the Alaska highway connections in the municipality. In selecti…
AS 19.20.090 [Renumbered as AS 19.10.270.]
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Article 2. Metropolitan Planning Organizations. Renumbered as AS 19.10.270. Renumbered as AS 19.10.270.
AS 19.20.200 Establishment of metropolitan planning organizations.
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In order to coordinate transportation planning in urbanized areas and achieve the transportation planning goals of 23 U.S.C. 134 and 49 U.S.C. 5303 — 5306, a metropolitan planning organization shall be established for each metropolitan area of the state when required for particip…
AS 19.20.210 Membership of the policy boards of metropolitan planning organizations.
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(a) The policy board of a metropolitan planning organization established under AS 19.20.200 for a metropolitan area with a population greater than 200,000 persons shall consist of at least seven voting members. A quorum of the policy board is a majority of the voting members of t…
AS 19.20.220 Approval of local transportation improvement plan.
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The governor may approve a transportation improvement plan or an amendment to a transportation improvement plan prepared by a metropolitan planning organization if the plan is consistent with applicable federal law and regulation and the policy board of the metropolitan planning …