Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 127

STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT DUAL OR DIVIDED HIGHWAYS

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 166 OF THE REVISED CODE OF DELAWARE, 1935, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED, "STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT", WITH REFERENCE TO DUAL OR DIVIDED HIGHWAYS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. That Chapter 166 of the Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, as amended by Chapter 270, Volume 45, 'Laws of Delaware, 1945, be further amended by striking out and repealing the second paragraph of 5758. Sec. 39. thereof, the same being designated as (b), and by inserting and enacting in lieu of the part so stricken out, a new paragraph designated (b) as follows:

(b) The State Highway Department is authorized to divide or separate any State Highway into separate roadways wherever there is particular danger to the travelling public of collision between vehicles proceeding in opposite directions or from cross traffic, by constructing curbs, central dividing parkways or other physical separations, or by signs, marks or other devices in or on the roadway, appropriate to designate the dividing line.

Approved April 3, 1947.