Arizona republican., 1920-11-01

Ca To determine what portion or portions of any state route shall be improved at the expense of the state.
 (h) TO make agreements on behalf of the state of Arizona with the United States government. or any department of the same, in any manner affecting the public highways of the state.
 CD To make agreements on behalf of the state with any county, city or town, or road district of the state Tor the improvement and maintenace of any part of a state route, or at the joint expense of the state and county, city or town or road district. CD To formulate rules and regula- tions governing the use by the public of state routes and highways such as may be necessary to provide for the public safety and against undue use of the state highways.
 (lS) To send it's members or other l representatives to attend meetings within or without the state of Arizona,
 as the commission deems will be of
 benefit to the work of the state high
 way department.
 l CD To prescribe standard guide board and road signs or other devices for the guidance of traffic, to be erect
 ed upon all state routes and state highways, and regulate the use of all other guide boards and road signs on any state route or state highway in
 the state.
 (m) To adopt regulations in regard
 to traffic on state highways not con
 trary to or in conflict with existing
 laws, and to close those under cons
 truction and to prescribe penalties for
 violations of such regulations and or
 ders. When it is necessary to close the ifFa hot
 proper barriers and notices shall be
 posted at each end Of such closed high
 way at the point where the detour road takes off from such closed high
 way and such detour road shall be
 clearly indicated by signs. and the
 same shall be adequately maintained
 (n) To take over the highway work now in progress under the present law (o) To prescribe the qualifications of all employees of the state highway
 department, and to inquire into theiI official conduct.
 (p) To prepare and submit annually to the governor on or before the first day of April, budget for the state
 highway department for the following l fiscal year.
 (q) To require from the highwa, engineer complete information con. cerning the work of the department ms charge.
 (r) To authorize and require tn,
 highway engineer to make such specia investigations and compile such specia data as the commission may deem tt , be of value for the work of the de | partment
 | (s) To establish. open, relocate . alter, widen or change any portion 0
 a state route or state highway T (D To execise such other power ' and duties as may be necessary t 5 give full force and effect to the fore . going provisions.
 : Under the provisions of the bill, Ian S which has been held as a state high
 way and then abandoned shall reyel n back to its owners, as may be seen b n reading Section 26
 d Sec. 26. When a portion of a stat d highway or state route is relocatei
 and because of such relocation a pol e tion of the route as it existed befor l. such relocation is. in the opinion r, the commission. no longer necessar Ie as a state highway, such portion sha Is be considered as abandoned and tit
 shall revert to the owner or owners 1t the land through which such abaT t. doned portion may lie. If it shall al s- pear that such abandoned portion to necessary for use as d public highwa n. then such abandoned portion shall b. ys come a county highway, upon u ot adoption of a resolution to that effe at by the county board of supervise Id within ninety (90) days after sus " abandonment by the commission.