§ 155.003  PLAT CERTIFICATES AND DEED OF DEDICATION.
   The following forms shall be used in record plat.
   (A)   Commission certificate.
 
UNDER AUTHORITY PROVIDED BY CHAPTER 174 - ACTS OF 1947, ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA, AND ALL ACTS AMENDATORY THERETO, AND AN ORDINANCE ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF ARCADIA, INDIANA, THIS PLAT WAS GIVEN APPROVAL BY THE TOWN OF ARCADIA AS FOLLOWS:
 
Adopted by the Arcadia Plan Commission at a meeting held                         ,           .
 
ARCADIA PLAN COMMISSION
 
                                                                             
President
 
                                                                             
Secretary
 
 
   (B)   County Commissioners’ certificate. The following certificate shall also be used if the plat lies wholly, or partly, outside of the town:
 
UNDER AUTHORITY PROVIDED BY CHAPTER 47, ACTS OF 1951, OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, STATE OF INDIANA, THIS PLAT WAS GIVEN APPROVAL BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF HAMILTON COUNTY, INDIANA, at a Meeting held on the           day of                               ,               .
 
                                                                             
President
 
                                                                             
 
                                                                             
 
 
   (C)   Registered land surveyor’s or engineer’s certificate.
 
I,                                                             , HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I AM A REGISTERED LAND SURVEYOR (OR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER), LICENSED IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF INDIANA:
 
THAT THIS PLAT CORRECTLY REPRESENTS A SURVEY COMPLETED BY ME ON                                                                                   THAT ALL THE MONUMENTS SHOWN THEREON ACTUALLY EXISTS: AND THAT ALL OTHER REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIED HEREIN, DONE BY ME, HAVE BEEN MET.
 
                                                                             
 
 
   (D)   Deed of dedication. Each record plat submitted to the Commission for approval shall carry a deed of dedication in substantially the following form:
 
We, the undersigned                                                                     , owners of the real estate shown and described herein, do hereby certify that we have laid off, platted and subdivided, and do hereby lay off, plat and subdivide, said real estate in accordance with the within plat.
 
This subdivision shall be known and designated as                                                             , an addition to                                                                 . All streets and alleys shown and not heretofore dedicated, are hereby dedicated to the public.
 
Front and side yard building setback lines are hereby established as shown on this plat, between which lines and the property lines of the street, there shall be erected or maintained no building or structure.
 
There are strips of ground (number) feet in width as shown on this plat and marked “Easement”, reserved for the use of public utilities for the installation of water and sewer mains, poles, ducts, lines and wires, subject to all times to the proper authorities and to the easement herein reserved. No permanent or other structures are to be erected or maintained upon said strips of land, but owners of lots in this subdivision shall take their titles subject to the rights of the public utilities.
 
(Additional dedications and protective covenants, or private restrictions would be inserted here upon the subdivider’s initiative or the recommendations of the Commission; important provisions are those specifying the use to be made of the property and, in the case of residential use, the minimum habitable floor area.)
 
The foregoing covenants, (or restrictions), are to run with the land and shall be binding on all parties and all persons claiming under them until January 1,                   (a 25-year period is suggested), at which time said covenants, (or restrictions), shall be automatically extended for successive periods of ten years unless changed by vote of a majority of the then owners of the building sites covered by these covenants, or restrictions, in whole or in part.  Invalidation of any one of the foregoing covenants or restrictions, by judgment or court order shall in no way affect any of the other covenants or restrictions, which shall remain in full force and effect.
 
The right to enforce these provisions by injunction, together with the right to cause the removal, by due process of law, of any structure or part thereof erected, or maintained in violation hereof, is hereby dedicated to the public, and reserved to the several owners of the several lots in this subdivision and to their heirs and assigns.
 
Witness our hands and seals this                         day of                               ,                   .
 
State of Indiana   )
) SS
County of Hamilton   )
 
 
Before me the undersigned Notary Public, in and for the county and state, personally appeared                                                                       ,                                                           ,                                                                       , and each separately and severally acknowledge the execution of the foregoing instrument as his or her voluntary act and deed. For the purpose therein expressed.
 
Witness my hand and notarial seal this                   day of                           ,                   .
 
 
                                                                             
Notary Public
 
                                                                             
My Commission Expires:
 
 
(Ord. passed 10-19-1977)