Terms Used In Tennessee Code 13-4-307

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Chief legislative body: means the chief legislative body of the municipality, whether designated board of aldermen, board of commissioners or by other title. See Tennessee Code 13-4-301
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Plat: includes plat, plan, plot or replot. See Tennessee Code 13-4-301
  • Subdivision: means , in any county having a population of not less than thirty-two thousand seven hundred (32,700) nor more than thirty-two thousand seven hundred sixty (32,760), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, the division of a tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more lots, sites or other division of less than five (5) acres for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development, and includes resubdivision and, when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land or area subdivided. See Tennessee Code 13-4-301

From and after the time when the platting jurisdiction of any municipal planning commission has attached as provided in § 13-4-302, the municipality shall not, nor shall any public authority, accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave, or light any street, or lay or authorize water mains or sewers or connections to be laid in any street within the municipality, unless such street shall have been accepted or opened as or shall have otherwise received the legal status of a public street prior to the attachment of the commission’s subdivision jurisdiction, or unless such street corresponds in its location and lines with a street shown on a subdivision plat approved by the planning commission or with a street plat made and adopted by the commission; provided, that the chief legislative body of the municipality may locate and construct or may accept any other street, provided the ordinance or other measure for such location and construction or for such acceptance is first submitted to the planning commission for its approval, and, if disapproved by the commission, be passed by a majority of the entire membership of the legislative body; and a street, approved by the planning commission upon such submission or constructed or accepted by such majority vote after disapproval by the commission, shall have the status of an approved street as fully as though it has been originally shown on a subdivision plat approved by the commission or on a plat made and adopted by the commission.