54-10-202 - Notice to interested parties of action to open or close.

54-10-202. Notice to interested parties of action to open or close.

No road shall be opened, changed, or closed, without giving at least five-days' notice to all interested parties of the time the road or roads are to be opened, changed, or closed, and a surveyor or civil engineer may be employed, if necessary, to locate the interested parties. Landowners and those controlling land touched by the proposed highway shall be deemed interested parties.

[Acts 1891, ch. 1, § 14; Shan., § 1621; Code 1932, § 2731; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 54-906.]