§ 24-01-04 — Municipalities to develop master street plan

Except for a municipality located within a designated metropolitan planning organization,
each municipality of over five thousand population in this state, according to the latest available
census, shall develop and adopt a master street plan cooperatively between the director and the
municipal officials, which must ensure the proper location and integration of the state highway
connections in the total city street plan. In selecting and designating the master street plan, the
cooperating officials shall take into account the more important principal streets that connect the
residential areas with business areas, and the streets that carry the important rural traffic into
and across the city, to ensure a system of streets upon which traffic can be controlled and
protected, in such a manner as to provide safe and efficient movement of traffic within a
municipality.