§ 31.020  DESCRIPTION OF REQUIRED PLATS.
   All calls in the metes and bounds description must have an angular bearing or course that is defined by degrees, minutes and seconds and must have a distance measured in chains, rods or feet and inches or to a permanently identified point. Following the course of a public road is an acceptable bearing if said bearing relates to the location of the road as of the date of the deed. The description must close; that is, if the courses and distances of the description are followed step-by-step from corner to corner, one must come back to the point of beginning with the error of closure not greater than one in 5,000.
(Ord. 2010-01, passed 3-16-2010)