The commissioner of transportation is authorized to plan, designate, establish, use, regulate, alter, improve, maintain or discontinue any road, street or highway or portion thereof, or to designate as local service roads and streets any existing road, street or highway, and to exercise jurisdiction over service roads in the same manner as is authorized over limited access facilities if in his opinion such local service roads are necessary or desirable.
Source. 1943, 79:1, par. 3. 1945, 188:1, part 7:5. 1950, 5:1, part 9:1, par. 2. RSA 236:5. 1981, 87:1. 1985, 402:6, I(b)(2).