792 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 487

CHAPTER 487.

(Senate Bill 190)

AN ACT to add five new sections to Article 89B of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "State
Roads", to be under new sub-title "Freeways", said new
sections to be known as Sections 150 to 154, inclusive,
and to follow immediately at the end of said Article,
relating to the construction, designation, and regulation
of freeways. '

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That five new sections be and they are hereby
added to Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1939 Edition), title "State Roads", to be under new sub-
title "Freeways", said new sections to be known as Sections
150 to 154, inclusive, to follow immediately at the end of
said Article 89B, and to read as follows:

Freeways

150. (a) The Commission may lay out, establish, and
(Construct any State highway as a freeway. A resolution
. adopted by the Commission stating that a proposed high-
way is to be constructed as a freeway shall be conclusive
evidence that the highway, when constructed, is a freeway
with all the characteristics and incidents prescribed by
this sub-title.

(b) When a highway is constructed as a freeway, no
. owner of land abutting the highway or other person shall
have any right of ingress or egress to, from or across such
abutting land to or from the freeway. The Commission in
its discretion, at the time of the construction of the free-
way or thereafter, may designate points at which access
will be permitted, upon such terms and conditions as it
may specify from time to time.

151. (a) The Commission may by resolution desig-
nate as a freeway all or any portion of any State highway
theretofore laid out, adopted, established and constructed.

(b) When any existing State highway is designated
as a freeway, then

(1) The Commission may by agreement or condemna-
tion, restrict or limit the right of any owner of land abut-
ting the freeway to lay out or construct any
new means of ingress or egress to, from or across such
abutting land to or from the freeway, or to enlarge or
extend any existing means of ingress or egress, and the