Tennessee § 13-7-301 - Prerequisites to plan or ordinance requiring subdivider to install curbs, gutters or sidewalks — Exceptions.
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§ 13-7-301. Prerequisites to plan or ordinance requiring subdivider to install curbs, gutters or sidewalks — Exceptions.
Notwithstanding this part and part 2 of this chapter to the contrary, no municipality or regional planning commission shall adopt any plan, ordinance or rule which would require a subdivider, whose proposed subdivision is outside the corporate limits of any municipality located within the regional planning district, to install curbs, gutters, or sidewalks, unless both public water and sewage systems are to be made available within eighteen (18) months after the subdivider requests approval of the subdivider's plan of subdivision. This section shall not apply to counties having the following populations according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census: not less than nor more than 276,000 277,000 700,000 800,000 or to counties with a metropolitan form of government. Acts 1978, ch. 942, §§ 1, 2; T.C.A., § 13-717. Compiler's Notes. For table of U.S. decennial populations of Tennessee counties, see Volume 13 and its supplement. Cross-References. Borrow excavations, exemption of certain road work construction from local and regional zoning and planning regulations, § 54-1-128 . Local regulation of junkyards, § 54-20-122 . Zoning regulations in metropolitan governments, § 7-3-304 . Attorney General Opinions. Constitutionality of city zoning and planning outside city limits, OAG 98-064, 1998 Tenn. AG LEXIS 64 (3/17/98). Extraterritorial zoning by cities under county growth plan, OAG 99-218, 1999 Tenn. AG LEXIS 180 (11/4/99). Right of municipality to separate planning region designation; right of municipality to provide zoning and subdivision regulations outside corporate limits but within urban growth boundaries, OAG 99-227, 1999 Tenn. AG LEXIS 229 (12/6/99). Extraterritorial city zoning, OAG 00-032, 2000 Tenn. AG LEXIS 32 (2/28/00).
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