14-1-12 VACATION OF PLATS
Unofficial copy. It may be out of date. Not legal or zoning advice. Zoning rules change, and only the city or county can say for sure what is allowed on a property. Confirm with the city or county planning department before you buy, sign or build.
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Text pulled 2026-10-19 from this source.
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1. Any plat or any part of any plat may be vacated by the owner
of the premises, at any time before the sale of any lot therein, by a written instrument, to which a copy of such plat shall be attached, declaring the same to be vacated.
2. Such an instrument shall be approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission in like manner as plats of subdivisions. The City Council may reject any such instrument which abridges or destroys any public rights in any of its public uses, improvements, streets, or alleys.
3. Such an instrument shall be executed, acknowledged or approved, and recorded of filed, in like manner as plats of subdivisions and being duly recorded or filed shall operate to destroy the force and effect of the recording of the plat so vacated, and to divest all public rights in the streets, alleys, and public grounds, and all dedications laid out or described in such plat.
4. When lots have been sold, the plat may be vacated in the manner herein provided buy all the owners of lots in such plat joining in the execution of such writing.