The City Council of any city of the first class or city of the second class or the Village Board of Trustees of any village shall have power by ordinance to provide the manner, plan or method by which land within the corporate limits of any such city or village, or land within the area designated by a city of the first class pursuant to Neb. RS 16-902(1) or within the area designated by a city of the second class or village pursuant to Neb. RS 17-1002(1), may be subdivided, platted or laid out, including a plan or system for the avenues, streets or alleys to be laid out within or across such land, and to compel the owners of any such land that are subdividing, platting or laying out such land to conform to the requirements of the ordinance and to lay out and dedicate the avenues, streets and alleys in accordance with the ordinance as provided in Neb. RS 16-901 to 16-905 and Neb. RS 17-1001 to 17-1004. No addition shall have any validity, right or privileges as an addition, and no plat of land or, in the absence of a plat, no instrument subdividing land within the corporate limits of any such municipality or of any land within the area designated by a city of the first class pursuant to Neb. RS 16-902(1) or within the area designated by a city of the second class or village pursuant to Neb. RS 17-1002(1), shall be recorded or have any force or effect, unless the plat or instrument is approved by the City Council or Village Board of Trustees or its designated agent and such approval is endorsed on such plat or instrument.
(Neb. RS 19-916)