(A) 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.
(B) (1) Such an instrument shall be approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission and corporate authorities in like manner as plats of subdivisions.
(2) The corporate authorities may reject any such instrument that abridges or destroys any public rights in any of its public uses, improvements, streets or alleys.
(C) (1) Such an instrument shall be executed, acknowledged or approved, and recorded or filed, in like manner as plats of subdivisions; and
(2) Being duly recorded or filed, such instrument 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.
(D) When lots have been sold, the plat may be vacated in the manner herein provided by all the owners in such plat joining in the execution of such writing.
(Ord. 278, passed 3-1-82; Am. Ord. 1233, passed 5-20-02)