Terms Used In Tennessee Code 54-18-219

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Board: means the board of adjustment required by this part, a board of zoning appeals designated to act as a board of adjustment, a county board of adjustment, and a municipal board of adjustment. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
  • Building: means any building, structure or improvement of any kind or part of the building, structure or improvement that through erection, construction, reconstruction, addition or alteration in any manner becomes a part of the realty. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
  • County: means , with respect to residency requirements of officers or to territorial jurisdiction, the area within the county outside municipalities. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
  • Highway: means any public way or part of the public way, including, but not limited to, a street, avenue, highway, or road. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
  • Legislative body: means the board or body in which the general legislative powers of a county or municipality are vested. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
  • Municipality: means an incorporated city or town. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
  • Ordinance: means the form of action of the municipal legislative body in exercising the powers under this part. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
  • Resolution: means the form of action of the county legislative body in exercising the powers under this part. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201

The legislative body may provide by resolution or ordinance that no permit for the erection of any building shall be issued, unless a highway giving access to the proposed building existed and was established by law as a public highway at the time of the establishment of the official map in accordance with this part; provided, that the resolution or ordinance shall contain a provision whereby the applicant for the permit may appeal to the board of adjustment provided for in § 54-18-212, hearing upon the appeal and notice of which shall be held and given as provided in this part, and the board shall have the authority to authorize a permit, subject to conditions the board may impose, where the circumstances of the case do not require the proposed building to be related to existing streets or to streets shown on the official map, and where the permit would not tend to distort or increase the difficulty of carrying out the official map or master plan of the county or municipality.