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.