§ 19-7-204 — Airports and highways for defense; cooperation with United States for construction

(a) The state department of transportation may cooperate
and contract with the government of the United States and other
state agencies in the making of surveys, plans, specifications
and estimates for, and in the construction, reconstruction and
maintenance of, flight strips, airports, roads and bridges
necessary to provide access to military and naval reservations,
defense industries, defense-industry sites and sources of raw
materials, shut off from general public use at military and
naval reservations and defense-industry sites.
(b) In cooperating with the government of the United
States and other state agencies the state department of
transportation may use monies from the state highway fund for
payment of the state's share of preliminary and construction
engineering costs of flight strips, airports and roads.