(A) Any owner, proprietor or developer of any tract of land situated within the jurisdiction of this chapter, who subdivides such tract, or who causes any public streets, alleys or public areas to be created, shall cause a plat to be made of such subdivision and shall cause said plat to be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county. The plat shall be in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(B) No plat of a subdivision shall be recorded until each plat shall have been approved, and such approval evidenced thereon, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(C) No permit shall be issued for the erection or occupancy of any structure or building to be located in any subdivision, a plat whereof is required to be recorded pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, until such plat shall have been recorded as herein provided.
(D) No lot shall be sold in any subdivision before the plat has been recorded.
(E) Every subdivision plat submitted for recordation shall be prepared by a certified professional engineer or land surveyor licensed by the state, who shall endorse upon each such plat a certificate signed by him or her setting forth the source of the title of the owner of the land subdivided and the place of record of the last instrument in the chain of title. When the plat is of land acquired from more than one source of title, the outlines of the several tracts shall be indicated upon such plat. No provision of this chapter shall preclude the preparation of a preliminary plat by an architect, landscape architect or land planner.
(F) Every such plat shall contain a statement as follows: “The platting or dedication of the following described land (here insert a correct description of the land subdivided) is with the free consent and in accordance with the desire of the undersigned owners, proprietors and trustees, if any.” The statement shall be signed by such persons and duly acknowledged before some officer authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds.
(G) The recordation of the final plat shall operate to transfer to the town or county, in fee simple, such portion of the premises platted as is on such plat set apart for streets, alleys or other public use and to transfer to said town or county, any easement indicated on such plat to create a public right of passage over same.
(1996 Code, § 143-4)