(1) Purpose. The purpose of these regulations is to define the procedures and standards that are required before the City of Cookeville, Tennessee will accept maintenance responsibility for a proposed public street. The procedures and minimum standards are necessary in order to provide fair and equitable treatment to all persons seeking to have a street accepted by the city, in order to insure that all streets accepted are suitable for public use, and to protect the Cookeville taxpayers from excessive and unnecessary expenditures for streets and street maintenance.
(2) Authority. These street acceptance and construction standards are adopted under the authority granted by Tennessee Code Annotated, § 6-2-201, which entrusts the establishment and general supervision of streets to the Council of the City of Cookeville; and by Tennessee Code Annotated, § 13-4-307, which provides that the Council of the City of Cookeville shall receive the recommendation of the planning commission prior to accepting or constructing any street.
(3) Jurisdiction. These regulations shall govern the acceptance of all streets for city maintenance within the corporate limits of the City of Cookeville, Tennessee.
(Ord. #002-01-01, Feb. 2002)