Legislative purpose in highway law, an analysis
Subtitle: a report of the highway laws project
Series: National Research Council. Highway Research Board. Special report 39; National Research Council. Highway Research Board. Special report 39
Published: 1958
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Highway law; States; Legal documents; Case studies; U.S. states
Description: The statute of every state of the nation, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico were studied. The study deals with express legislative declarations of purpose concerning activities in the highway field encompassing the following: (1) the assembly and analysis of statutory provisions which involve a legislative policy or purpose relative to highway activities, (2) the assembly and analysis of judicial decisions in which such provisions have played a part, and (3) the ascertainment and analysis of the substantive elements that should be considered in connection with legislation.
Notes: National Research Council. Publication 628.
Table of contents: title: Summary of findings and conclusions; title: General problems of statutory construction; title: Declarations of legislative purpose in general; title: Use of declarations of policy in highway legislation; title: Existing declarations of legislative purpose relating to highways; title: Appendixes.