The following forms shall be used in final plats:
1. Under authority provided by I.C. 36-7-4-700 (700-799), as amended from time to time, and an ordinance adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Kouts, Porter County, Indiana, this plat was given approval by the Town of Kouts as follows:
Approved by Town Plan Commission at a meeting held
President
(SEAL) Secretary
2. Each final plat submitted to the 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 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 their location, size, type and material are accurately shown.
(SEAL) (Signature)
Each lot shall have a notation of minimum elevation, related to United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Datum, below which elevation no entrance into any principal use structure shall be permitted. Prior to the issuance of any certificate of occupancy, the Town of Kouts shall require written certification of compliance with said elevation by a professional land surveyor, licensed in compliance with the laws of the State of Indiana.
3. Each final plat submitted to the Plan Commission for approval shall carry a deed of dedication in substantially the following form:
“We the undersigned (names), 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 plat.”
This subdivision shall be known and designated as (name), an addition to (name). All streets, alleys and easements shown and not heretofore dedicated, are hereby dedicated, to the Town of Kouts.
Front and side yard building setback lines are hereby established as shown on this plat, between which line 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 public utilities.”
(Additional dedications and protective covenants or private restrictions would be inserted here upon the subdivider’s initiative or the recommendation of the Plan Commission; important provisions are those specifying the use to be made of the property and, in the case of residential use, the minimum floor area).
Where covenants or restrictions are inserted in any plat, they shall provide that invalidation of any one of the same by judgement or court order shall in no way affect any of the other covenants or restrictions which shall remain in full force and effect. The covenants and restrictions shall further provide the right to enforce those 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 thereof, is hereby dedicated to the public, and reserved to the several owners of the several lots in said subdivision and to their heirs and assigns.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Each final plat submitted to the Plan Commission for approval shall carry an acknowledgment in substantially the following form:
State of Indiana)
SS:
Town of Kouts)
Before me the undersigned Notary Public, in and for the County and State, personally appeared (name), (name), and each separately and severally acknowledged the execution of the foregoing instrument as his or her voluntary act and deed, for the purpose therein expressed. Witness my hand and Notarial Seal this day of , 20 .
Notary Public
Resident of County
Commission Expires
(Ord. 1995-2, passed 1-3-95)