a. No map of a subdivision or platting of land into streets, avenues or public places and blocks within the limits of the city shall be received for filing in the office in which instruments affecting real property are required to be recorded in the county in which the land is situated, unless such map shall have been reviewed and approved pursuant to section one hundred ninety-seven-c and section one hundred ninety-seven-d. If such map is disapproved, the chair of the city planning commission shall certify such fact in writing upon such map, and such map shall be received only for record without such approval.
b. No street, avenue, highway or public place, the layout of which has not been approved as provided in this section, shall be deemed to have been accepted by the city as a street, avenue, highway or public place, unless such street, avenue, highway or public place shall lie within the lines of a street, avenue, highway or public place upon the city map.