(a) The making or certifying of a map by the planning commission or the adoption or amendment of an official map by the legislative body shall not constitute the opening or establishment of any highway or the taking or acceptance of any land for highway purposes.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 54-18-208

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Department: means the department of transportation. See Tennessee Code 54-5-103
  • 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) Any highway placed on the official map shall be removed from the map unless the governing body or the department of transportation, as the case may be, has begun acquisition of right-of-way, begun the construction of the highway, or begun the widening or other planned improvement of the highway within the following time limits:

(1) In the case of federal interstate and defense highways, by the end of 1972;
(2) In the case of other state highways, a period of seven (7) years; or
(3) In the case of local highways, a period of three (3) years.
(c) Upon adoption of an official map, the advance acquisition of rights-of-way for those streets on the official map shall proceed as expeditiously as feasible.
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