The following forms shall be used in final plats.
(A) Approval form.
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 TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF CENTERVILLE, INDIANA, THIS PLAT WAS GIVEN APPROVAL BY THE TOWN OF CENTERVILLE AS FOLLOWS: Approved by the Town Plan Commission at a meeting held . President Secretary |
(B) Certificate signed by engineer or surveyor. Each final plat submitted to the town’s Plan Commission for approval shall carry a certificate signed by a registered professional engineer or land surveyor in substantially the following form.
I, (name) , hereby certify that I am a Professional Engineer (or a Land Surveyor), licensed in compliance with the laws of the State of Indiana; that this plat correctly represents a survey completed by me on (date) ; that all the monuments shown thereon actually exist; and that the location, size, type and material are accurately shown. (SEAL) (signature) |
(C) Deed of dedication. Each final 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 (name) , an addition to (name) . 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 at 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 recommendation 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, 20 , (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 , 20 . State of Indiana ) ) SS County of Wayne ) Before me the undersigned Notary Public, in and for the county and state, personally appeared (name) , (name) , (name), and each separately and severally acknowledge the execution of the foregoing instrument as his or her voluntary act and deed, for the purposes therein expressed. Witness my hand and notarial seal this day of , . Notary Public |
(Prior Code, § 153.17) (Ord. 2-1957, passed - -)