Subdivision Regulations

Subdivision Regulations • Procedures • 20 Franklin Subdivision Regulations • December 12, 2019 4.6 Enforcement A. No plat or plan of a subdivision of land into two or more lots located within the City shall be admitted to the land records of Williamson County, or be received or recorded by the Register’s Office, Williamson County, until said plat or plan has received final approval in writing by the FMPC as provided in T.C.A. § 13-4-302. B. No board, public officer or authority shall light any street, lay or authorize the laying of water mains, sewers or the construction of other facilities or utilities in any street located within the City unless such street shall have been accepted, opened or otherwise received the legal status of a public street prior to the adoption of these Subdivision Regulations, or unless such street corresponds in its location and lines to a street shown on a subdivision plat approved by the FMPC or as depicted in Connect Franklin as provided in T.C.A. § 13-4-307. C. Pursuant to T.C.A. § 13-4-306, Tennessee Code Annotated, whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land, transfers or sells or agrees to sell or negotiates to sell such land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat of subdivision of such land without having submitted a plat of such subdivision to the FMPC and obtained lawful approval and before such plat be recorded in the office of the appropriate County Register, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor Class C, punishable as other misdemeanors as provided by law; and the description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from such penalties. The municipality, through its solicitor or other official designated by its chief legislative body may enjoin such transfer or sale or agreement by action for injunction. D. Any building or structure erected or to be erected in violation of the Subdivision Regulations shall be deemed an unlawful building or structure, and the Building Inspector or other official designated by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen may bring action to enjoin such erection or cause it to be vacated or removed as provided in T.C.A. § 13-4-308.