[§46-15.9]  Traffic regulation; repair andmaintenance; public right to use public streets, roads, or highways whoseownership is in dispute.  (a)  Any provision of law to the contrarynotwithstanding, any county and its authorized personnel may impose and enforcetraffic laws and shall enforce chapters 286 and 291C on public streets, roads,or highways whose ownership is in dispute between the State and the county.

(b)  Any provision of the law to the contrarynotwithstanding, any county and its authorized personnel may repair ormaintain, in whole or in part, public streets, roads, or highways whoseownership is in dispute between the State and the county.

(c)  No presumption that a county owns aparticular street, road, or highway shall arise as a result of the county'sperformance of the activities allowed by subsection (a) or (b).

(d)  The general public shall have theunrestricted right to use public streets, roads, or highways whose ownership isin dispute between the State and the county to access the shoreline and otherpublic recreational areas; provided that this subsection shall not apply to anyprivate street, road, or highway whose ownership is in dispute.

(e)  As used in this section:

"Public recreational area" meanscoastal and inland recreational areas, including beaches, shores, public parks,public lands, public trails, and bodies of water opened to the public forrecreational use. [L 2008, c 56, §2]