72-7-103. Limitation on access authority.
(1) As used in this section: "Highway facility" means: SR-7 as described in Section; 72-4-106 SR-67 as described in Section; 72-4-112 SR-85 as described in Section; 72-4-114 SR-154 as described in Section; or 72-4-121 SR-201 as described in Section. 72-4-126 "Legal point of access" means an access established in accordance with applicable law: before July 1, 2003; by permit issued by the highway authority; or by a deed or court order.
(2) A highway authority may not deny reasonable ingress and egress to property adjoining a public highway except where: the highway authority acquires right of ingress and egress by gift, agreement, purchase, eminent domain, or otherwise; or no right of ingress or egress exists between the right-of-way and the adjoining property.
(3) For a property adjoining a public highway that is not an interstate system or a highway facility, a highway authority may not close a legal point of access to the public highway, unless: the property has reasonably equivalent access to the public highway after the legal access is closed; or the highway authority acquires the legal point of access by gift, agreement, purchase, or eminent domain.