Kentucky Revised Statutes

Ky. Rev. Stat. § 177.240 (2026)

Design of facilities -- Regulation of access

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The highway authorities of the state, county, city, and town are authorized to so design any limited access facility and to so regulate, restrict, or prohibit access as to best serve the traffic for which such facility is intended, and its determination of such design shall be final. In this connection, such highway authorities are authorized to divide and separate any limited access facility into separate roadways by the construction of raised curbings, central dividing sections, or other physical separations, or by designating such separate roadways by signs, markers, stripes, and the proper lane for such traffic by appropriate signs, markers, stripes, and other devices. No person shall have any right of ingress or egress to, from, or across limited access facilities to or from abutting lands, except at such designated points at which access may be permitted, upon such terms and conditions as may be specified from time to time. Effective: June 27, 2019 History: Amended 2019 Ky. Acts ch. 44, sec. 26, effective June 27, 2019. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 173, sec. 27, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 213, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1984. -- Created 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 225, sec. 4.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 6 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1950–2026 · leading case: Sturgill v. Commonwealth, Dep't of Highways, 384 S.W.2d 89 (Ky. Ct. App. 1964).

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Sturgill v. Commonwealth, Dep't of Highways, 384 S.W.2d 89 (Ky. Ct. App. 1964). “See KRS 177.240; and Luke v. Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, 337 Mass.”

Keck v. Manning, 231 S.W.2d 604 (Ky. Ct. App. 1950). “046 relating to *436 establishing and maintaining signs and markers; KRS 177.240 and 177.290 authorizing limited-access facilities and designating snch separate roadways and the maintaining of local service roads and streets; and KRS 189.”

Keck v. Manning, 231 S.W.2d 604 (Ky. Ct. App. 1950). “046 relating to establishing and maintaining signs and markers; KRS 177.240 and 177.290 authorizing limited-access facilities and designating such separate roadways and the maintaining of local service roads and streets; and KRS 189.”

Ndayishimye Tito v. Commonwealth of Kentucky (Ky. Ct. App. 2025). “]” KRS 177.240 further provides that “No person shall have any right of ingress or egress to, from, or across limited access facilities .”

Wsp USA Inc. v. Kristina Ives, Individually (Ky. 2026). “I perceive the policy considerations underlying the preemptive component of the federal rule to be consistent with both Kentucky caselaw on the governmental contractor defense and public policy as articulated in KRS 177.240 which provides that design approval by a highway…”

Field & Main Bank, Inc. F/K/A Ohio Valley Fin. Grp., Inc., Successor by Merger & F/K/A Ohio Valley Bank, Inc., S (Ky. Ct. App. 2026). “020(2) and KRS 177.240. As a result of the IOJ, KYTC had the right to take a fee simple interest in this half-parking-space-sized area.”

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