(A) Whenever the Commissioner of Highways, by authority of KRS 177.041 to 177.047 inclusive, designates any streets or portions thereof, including viaducts and bridges, as connecting links of state and federal maintained highways, or necessary feeder streets thereto, and thereby undertakes the future maintenance repair, construction or reconstruction of such streets, bridges or viaducts in the manner provided by the aforesaid statutes, the Mayor of the city is expressly authorized, instructed and directed to enter into any and all contracts and agreements with the department of highways necessary to carry out the purposes and provisions of the statutes.
(B) Should the Department of Highways construct or reconstruct any streets in the city, such work shall be done by the Department as the agent of the city, as set out in KRS 177.044 (3).
(1980 Code, § 620.3-1)