KRS 177.230: Establishment of limited access facilities -- Regulation of use.

The highway authorities of the state, counties, cities, and towns, acting alone or in

cooperation, with each other or with any federal, state, or local agency or any other state

having authority to participate in the construction and maintenance of highway s, are

hereby authorized to plan, designate, establish, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, maintain,

and provide limited access facilities for public use wherever such authority or authorities

are of the opinion that traffic conditions, present or future, w ill justify such special

facilities: provided, that within cities such authority shall be subject to such municipal

consent as may be provided by law. Said highway authorities of the state, counties, cities,

and towns, in addition to the specific powers gr anted in KRS 177.220 to 177.310, shall

also have and may exercise, relative to limited access facilities, any and all additional

authority now or hereafter vested in them relative to highways or streets within their

respective jurisdictions. Said units may regulate, restrict, or prohibit the use of such

limited access facilities by the various classes of vehicles or traffic in a manner consistent

with KRS 177.220.