§ 13-4-301 Part definitions
§ 13-4-302 Submission of subdivision plats to commission for approval – Filing and recording
§ 13-4-303 Subdivision regulations – Adoption
§ 13-4-304 Procedure on submission of plats – Approval or disapproval – Contents – Hearings – Procedure in certain counties
§ 13-4-305 Dedications – Effect of plat approval on status
§ 13-4-306 Transactions prohibited prior to obtaining approval of final subdivision plat – False representations as to construction of roads – Remedies – Requirements for final plat approval
§ 13-4-307 Acceptance of and improvements of unapproved streets
§ 13-4-308 Prerequisites to granting building permit or erecting building – Public streets – Easements – Unlawful structures
§ 13-4-309 Special or private laws providing for municipal planning commission not repealed
§ 13-4-310 Power of municipal planning commission to promulgate provisions for development – Vesting period for development standards as to approved development plans
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 13 > Chapter 4 > Part 3 - Municipal Planning Regulations

  • 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.
  • 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
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Highway: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • 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.
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Plat: includes plat, plan, plot or replot. See Tennessee Code 13-4-301
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Road: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • 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
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • streets: means and includes streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, lanes, alleys and other ways. 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
  • Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105