The Department may widen, straighten, grade, reconstruct and otherwise improve and maintain any road, lane or entrance leading from any public road to any institution which is owned or controlled in whole or in part by the State. The Department shall have the same rights, powers and privileges for the purpose of performing and carrying out the duty hereby imposed as it has for the purpose of constructing state highways in general.
Structure Delaware Code
Subchapter III. Jurisdiction, Powers and Duties of Department
§ 132. General powers and duties.
§ 133. Road improvements; additions to state system.
§ 135. Authority to construct dual and express highways.
§ 136. Improvements of roads leading to institutions.
§ 137. Acquisition and sale of real property.
§ 138. Acquisition of uneconomic remnants of land along right-of-way.
§ 139. Notice to landowners; written claim for damages.
§ 140. Educational and safety campaigns.
§ 141. Regulation of traffic; exceptions.
§ 142. Automobile for use of Governor.
§ 143. Expenses of alteration or relocation of facilities or structures of public utilities.
§ 144. Millsboro Pond Dam; construction and maintenance.
§ 145. Corridor capacity preservation.
§ 146. Access to state-maintained highways.
§ 147. Authority to establish standards for traffic-control devices.
§ 149. Authority to adopt regulations governing state land.