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<section article="gtr" article_name="Transportation" number="8-101" title_number="8" title_name="Highways" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions; General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Administration” means the State Highway Administration.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Administrator” means the State Highway Administrator.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Bicycle and pedestrian priority area” means a geographical area where the enhancement of bicycle or pedestrian traffic is a priority.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Commission” means the State Roads Commission.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Controlled access highway” means a major highway with the same characteristics as an expressway, except that the conflict of cross streams of traffic is not eliminated necessarily at each intersection by grade separation structures.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“County road” means any public highway:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The title to which or the easement for the use of which, is vested in a public body or governmental agency; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>That is not a State highway or located in Baltimore City.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Expressway” means a major highway of two or more traffic lanes in each direction that is designed to eliminate principal traffic hazards and has the following characteristics:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A median divider separating opposing traffic lanes to eliminate head-on collisions and sideswiping;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Grade separation structures to eliminate the conflict of cross streams of traffic at each intersection;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Points of entrance and exit limited to predetermined locations;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Vertical curves long enough to provide long sight distances; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Shoulders wide enough to permit vehicles to stop or park out of traffic lanes.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Highway” includes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Rights-of-way, roadway surfaces, roadway subgrades, shoulders, median dividers, drainage facilities and structures, related stormwater management facilities and structures, roadway cuts, roadway fills, guardrails, bridges, highway grade separation structures, railroad grade separations, tunnels, overpasses, underpasses, interchanges, entrance plazas, approaches, and other structures forming an integral part of a street, road, or highway, including bicycle and walking paths; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any other property acquired for the construction, operation, or use of the highway.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Interstate highway” means a State highway that is part of the national interstate system in this State, as designated by the Administration and approved by the United States Secretary of Transportation under Title 23 of the United States Code.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Maintenance” means the upkeep and repair by which a highway, building, equipment, and other property is kept in an ordinarily efficient operating condition.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Maintenance” does not include construction, reconstruction, or relocation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“Primary highway” means a State highway that has been designated a primary highway by the Administration with the approval of the Secretary.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <text>“Project” means the construction, reconstruction, or relocation of one or more sections or parts of the State highway system.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="n">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Railroad grade separation” means any overpass or underpass that eliminates a railroad grade crossing.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Railroad grade separation” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The overpass and underpass structure and the approaches to them;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Any related entrance plazas, interchanges, connecting highways, and other structures; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Any other property acquired for the construction, operation, or use of the railroad grade separation.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="o">
    <text>“Road” means a highway.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="p">
    <text>“Secondary highway” means a State highway that is neither a primary highway nor interstate highway.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="q">
    <text>“State highway” means any public highway owned by this State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="r">
    <text>“State highway system” means the system of State-owned primary and secondary highways throughout this State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="s">
    <text>“Street” means a highway.</text>
  </level>
</section>
