Tennessee Code Title 13. Public Planning and Housing § 13-4-307

From and after the time when the platting jurisdiction of any municipal planning commission has attached as provided in § 13-4-302, the municipality shall not, nor shall any public authority, accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave, or light any street, or lay or authorize water mains or sewers or connections to be laid in any street within the municipality, unless such street shall have been accepted or opened as or shall have otherwise received the legal status of a public street prior to the attachment of the commission's subdivision jurisdiction, or unless such street corresponds in its location and lines with a street shown on a subdivision plat approved by the planning commission or with a street plat made and adopted by the commission; provided, that the chief legislative body of the municipality may locate and construct or may accept any other street, provided the ordinance or other measure for such location and construction or for such acceptance is first submitted to the planning commission for its approval, and, if disapproved by the commission, be passed by a majority of the entire membership of the legislative body; and a street, approved by the planning commission upon such submission or constructed or accepted by such majority vote after disapproval by the commission, shall have the status of an approved street as fully as though it has been originally shown on a subdivision plat approved by the commission or on a plat made and adopted by the commission.