{{Short description|Type of highway}} [[File:Bogert's Bridge Northern Approach.JPG|thumb|Bogert's Bridge, a bridge that is part of a legislative route outside of [[Allentown, Pennsylvania]]]]
In the [[United States]], a '''legislative route''' ('''LR''') or '''legislative highway''' is a [[highway]] defined by [[law]]s passed in a [[U.S. state|state]] [[legislature]].<ref>{{cite web |title=ARTICLE 3. The State Highway Routes [300 - 635] |url=https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=SHC&division=1.&title=&part=&chapter=2.&article=3. |website=California Legislative Information |access-date=January 16, 2021}}</ref> The numbering of such highways may or may not correspond to the numbers familiar to the public as part of the state, [[U.S. highway]], and [[Interstate highway]] systems.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Great Renumbering: California State Highways Before 1965 |url=https://www.cahighways.org/pre-inst.html |website=California Highways |access-date=January 16, 2021}}</ref> Legislative routes may be composed of several such roads, and conversely, state, U.S., and Interstate highways may be made up of several legislative routes. [[Minnesota]] also had highways defined in an amendment to the [[Minnesota State Constitution]] in 1920, and those roads are known as [[Legislative route (Minnesota)|constitutional route]]s.<ref>{{cite web |title=161.114 Constitutional trunk highways |url=https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/161.114 |website=Minnesota Legislature |access-date=January 16, 2021}}</ref>
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