As used in this chapter or in any chapter of the Code relating to highways:
1. "County conservation parkways" or "county conservation parkway system" means those parkways classified as county conservation parkways under section 306.1.
2. "Farm-to-market roads" or "farm-to-market road system" means those rural secondary roads classified as trunk and trunk collector under section 306.1.
3. "Institutional roads" means those roads and streets classified as institutional roads under section 306.1.
4. "Interstate roads" or "interstate road system" means those roads and streets of the primary road system that are designated by the secretary of the United States department of transportation as the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways in Iowa.
5. "Local secondary roads" or "local secondary road system" means those secondary roads which are classified as area service under section 306.1.
6. "Municipal street system" means those streets within municipalities classified as trunk, trunk collector, municipal arterial, municipal collector, municipal service and municipal alleys under section 306.1.
7. "Other state land roads" means those roads and streets classified as other state land roads under section 306.1.
8. "Primary roads" or "primary road system" means those roads and streets, both inside and outside the boundaries of municipalities, classified under section 306.1 as freeway-expressway, arterial and arterial connector.
9. "Public road right-of-way" means the area of land, the right to possession of which is secured or reserved by a governmental subdivision for roadway purposes. The right-of-way for all secondary roads is sixty-six feet in width, unless otherwise specified by the county board of supervisors of the respective counties.
10. "Road" or "street" means the entire width between property lines through private property or designated width through public property of every way or place of whatever nature when any part of such way or place is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for purposes of vehicular traffic.
11. "Secondary roads" or "secondary road system" means those roads, outside the boundaries of municipalities, classified as trunk, trunk collector and area service under section 306.1.
12. "State park roads" means those roads and streets classified as state park roads under section 306.1.
[C24, 27, § 4636; C31, 35, § 4644-c2; C39, § 4644.02; C46, 50, § 309.2; C54, 58, 62, 66, § 306.2; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 306.3]
92 Acts, ch 1153, § 1
Referred to in § 307A.2, 309.3, 310.10, 315.3
Iowa General Assembly
Search: Iowa Code 1997
© 1997 Cornell College and League of Women Voters of Iowa
Comments? webmaster@legis.iowa.gov.
Last update: Mon Jan 27 16:05:08 CST 1997
URL: /DOCS/IACODE/1997/306/3.html
jhf