Each final plat submitted to the Plan Commission for approval shall carry a deed of dedication in substantially the following form:
“We, the undersigned ________________, owners of the real estate shown and described herein, do hereby certify that we have laid off, platted and subdivided, and do thereby lay off, plat and subdivide, said real estate in accordance with the within plat.
This subdivision shall be known and designated as ____________, an addition to ____________. All streets and alleys shown and not heretofore dedicated, are hereby dedicated to the public.
Front and side yard building lines are hereby established as shown on this plat, between which lines and the property lines of the street, there shall be erected or maintained no building or structure.
There are strips of ground ________ 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, surface drainage, 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 the public utilities.
(Additional dedications and protective covenants, or private restrictions, would be inserted here upon the subdivider’s initiative or upon the recommendation of the Commission. Important provisions are those specifying the use to be made of the property and, in the case of residential use, the minimum habitable floor area.)
The foregoing covenants (or restrictions) are to run with the land and shall be binding on all parties and all persons claiming under them until January 1, 19___, (a twenty-five (25) year period is suggested), at which time said covenants, (or restrictions), shall be automatically extended for successive periods of ten (10) years unless changed by vote of a majority of the then owners of the building sites covered by these covenants, or restrictions, in whole or in part. Invalidation of any one of the foregoing covenants or restrictions, by judgment or court order shall in no way affect any of the other covenants or restrictions, which shall remain in full force and effect.
The right to enforce these 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 hereof, is hereby dedicated to the public, and reserved to the several owners of the several lots in this subdivision and to their heirs and assigns.”
Witness our Hands and Seals this ________ day of _____________, 19___.
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State of Indiana ) Signature
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County of Laporte) Signature
Before me the undersigned Notary Public, in and for the County and State, personally appeared ________________, ______________________ ___________________ and each separately and severally acknowledged the execution of the foregoing instrument as his or her voluntary act and deed, for the purposes therein expressed.
Witness my hand and notarial seal this _________ day of _____________, 19___.
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Signature
(Ord. passed 3-9-70)