54-8-102 - Duties of commission Notification to landowners.
54-8-102. Duties of commission Notification to landowners.
(a) The duties of the county highway commission shall be to provide an efficient system of laying out, building, reconstructing, repairing and maintaining public roads and bridges and of operating, constructing and repairing ferries in the county.
(b) Whenever the legislative body of a county or metropolitan government plans to add or delete a roadway to or from the county road system that was formerly a part of the county road system and then was subsequently abandoned by the county, the office of the county mayor shall, thirty (30) days prior, provide written notice to all landowners adjoining the affected roadway. Notice shall be mailed to the address listed on the tax rolls for the properties in question.
[Acts 1929, ch. 54, § 2; Code 1932, § 3279; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 54-702; Acts 1996, ch. 685, § 1; 2003, ch. 90, § 2.]