{"data":{"id":"us-de/17-del.-c.-176","jurisdiction":"us-de","citation":"17 Del. C. § 176","heading":"New and existing facilities; grade-crossing eliminations.","body":"The Department may designate and establish controlled-access highways as new and additional facilities or may designate and establish an existing highway as a controlled-access facility. The State or any of its subdivisions shall have authority to provide for the elimination of intersections at grade of controlled-access facilities with existing state roads by grade separation or service road or by closing off such roads and streets at the right-of-way boundary line of such controlled-access facility; and after the establishment of any controlled-access facility, no highway or street which is not part of said facility shall intersect the same at grade, except as a temporary expedient, for which a separate resolution for each individual location shall be approved by a duly executed resolution of the Department. No city or town street, state highway, or other public way shall be opened into or connected with any such controlled-access facility without the consent and previous approval of the Department. Such consent and approval shall be given only if the public interest shall be served thereby.","path":["Title 17. Highways","CHAPTER 1. General Provisions","Subchapter V. Controlled-Access Highways"],"source_url":"https://delcode.delaware.gov/title17/c001/sc05/index.html#176","current_through":"2026-08-10 (85 Del. Laws, c. 421, 424)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T23:02:23Z","sha256":"d230d1c8581e73a4ca04a9b43a7742b019b9d443126a396220488ecf32072f49","source_id":"us-de","stale":true,"prev":"us-de/17-del.-c.-175","next":"us-de/17-del.-c.-177"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}