{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-54-5-502","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-5-502","heading":"Part definitions","body":"As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:\n(1) \"Department\" means the department of transportation;\n(2) \"Local agency\" means any county or incorporated city or town in this state;\n(3) \"Local interstate or fully controlled access highway connecting route\" or \"connector\" means a roadway, or segment of a roadway, that will provide, or facilitate, appropriate ingress and egress, between an interstate highway or fully controlled access highway facility and a roadway that is of important benefit to a populous locality;\n(4) \"Major thoroughfare system\" means the system of arterial and collector streets serving an urban-like developed area; and\n(5) \"Project\" includes all of the phases of work required to produce a completed connector, including location, design, acquisition of rights-of-way, relocation of utility facilities, the cost of which is not the legal obligation of the owners thereof, and the construction or reconstruction of the connector.\nImpl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 9, § 3; Acts 1965, ch. 159, § 2; 1968, ch. 577, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1972, ch. 829, § 7; T.C.A., 54-570; Acts 1981, ch. 264, § 12; 1999, ch. 249, § 2.","path":["TN Code","Title 54","Chapter 5"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_tn_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:26Z","sha256":"3abc30ed93390111ae2fdb9cb6bcc54d1dc399fb8b168c815a5608f06af92c59","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-54-5-501","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-54-5-503"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}