Iowa Code
Iowa Code § 306A.2 (2026)
Definition of a controlled-access facility
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For the purposes of this chapter, a controlled-access facility is defined as a highway or street especially designed for through traffic, and over, from or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right or easement or only a controlled right or easement of access, light, air, or view by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such controlled-access facility or for any other reason. Such highways or streets may be freeways open to use by all customary forms of street and highway traffic or they may be parkways from which trucks, buses, and other commercial vehicles shall be excluded. [C58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306A.2] Referred to in §306A.3, 314.16A
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cases, 1959–1980 · leading case: Lehman v. Iowa State High. Comm'n, 99 N.W.2d 404 (Iowa 1959).
Lehman v. Iowa State High. Comm'n, 99 N.W.2d 404 (Iowa 1959). “" Section 306A.2 defines a controlled-access facility "as a highway or street especially designed for through traffic, and over, from or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right or easement or only a controlled right or easement of access,…”
A & S, INC. v. Iowa State High. Comm'n, 116 N.W.2d 496 (Iowa 1962). “Section 306A.2, Code of Iowa. As to primary roads, the highway commission is authorized to plan, designate, establish, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, maintain and provide controlled-access facilities for public use wherever in its opinion traffic conditions, present or…”
Ginn Iowa Oil Co. v. Iowa Dep't of Transp., 506 F. Supp. 967 (S.D. Iowa 1980). “Section 306A.2, Code of Iowa, I.C.A. ... The legislature has placed in the commission discretion, authority and power.”
Iowa Power & Light Co. v. Iowa State High. Comm'n, 117 N.W.2d 425 (Iowa 1962). “” Section 306A.2 defines controlled-access highways; and Interstate 35-80 is clearly within this category.”
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