(a) After the preparation of a master plan or at least a major street plan, the planning commission may make studies or surveys of new, extended, widened, or narrowed highways, or of the vacation or abandonment of highways, and may make and certify to the legislative body a map of the area studied or surveyed that shall show the recommended future highways, extensions, widenings, narrowings, or abandonments, including any state and federal highway or abandonment proposed by the commissioner.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 54-18-204

  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of transportation. 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
  • Planning commission: means the duly constituted planning commission of the county or municipality. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) The certified map shall show the location of existing highways and highways on plats of subdivisions that have been approved by the planning commission.
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