The state highway system shall consist of a statewide system of connecting highways which shall be constructed by the Department of Transportation and which shall be maintained by the department in a safe and serviceable condition as state highways. The complete state highway system shall mean the system of state highways as now constituted, consisting of the roads, streets and highways heretofore designated as state highways or designated for construction or maintenance by the department pursuant to law, together with the roads, streets and highways heretofore added to the state highway system by the Commission of the Department of Transportation, and such roads, streets and highways as may hereafter be added to the system pursuant to law. Roads and highways in the state highway system are classified into three classifications:

1. (1) interstate system of highways;
2. (2) state highway primary system; and
3. (3) state highway secondary system.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-101; 1952 Code Section 33-101; 1951 (47) 457; 1967 (55) 207; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1509.