(A) Whenever the Commissioner of Highways of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, by authority of KRS 177.043 to 177.047, designates any streets or portions thereof, including viaducts and bridges, as connecting links of state or 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 as provided in the aforesaid statutes, the Mayor is hereby expressly authorized, instructed, and directed to enter into any and all contracts and agreements with the said Department of Highways necessary to carry out the purposes and provisions of said statutes.
(B) For and in consideration of the construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of a system of highways within the city and the regulation of traffic thereon, the city hereby agrees without further necessary documentation or approval to permit the Department of Highways, pursuant to its policies and procedures which it from time to time may prescribe, to install and maintain traffic-control devices such as, but not limited to, vehicle detectors, signs, islands, and pavement markings within the rights-of-way of any public road or street within the city in order to regulate the flow of traffic to and from the roads of the city to and on the roads constructed, reconstructed, and maintained by the Department, and the city further agrees to pay all costs of the purchase of power for actuating and lighting installations within the corporate limits of the city and to maintain such at its sole expense.
(Ord. passed 7-2-1951; Motion passed 4-20-1961)