(a) Not less than 30 nor more than 60 days after the Council adopts the resolution to approve an abandonment or closing, the Council Clerk must notify the Planning Board, the Directors of Permitting Services and Transportation, and the County Attorney that the Council has authorized the abandonment or closing.
(b) The Director of Permitting Services, after receiving a copy of the Council resolution, must sign, on behalf of the County, a plat of subdivision prepared by the applicant, which the Planning Board has approved for recording, approving the abandonment or closing.
(c) The County Attorney must cause to be recorded in the County land records the Council resolution which approved the abandonment or closing.
(d) Any abandonment or road closure approved after July 1, 2007, is automatically revoked by operation of law if each condition specified in the approval resolution, including any later amendment to that resolution, has not been completed within the time specified in the resolution or, if the resolution did not specify a completion date, within 5 years after the Council approved the resolution or amended the resolution to insert that condition. (1975 L.M.C., ch. 26, § 1; 1982 L.M.C., ch. 46, § 3; 2007 L.M.C., ch. 8, § 1; 2008 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 1.)
Editor’s note—2008 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 3, states: Sec. 3. Any regulation in effect when this Act takes effect that implements a function transferred to another Department or Office under Section 1 of this Act continues in effect, but any reference in any regulation to the Department from which the function was transferred must be treated as referring to the Department to which the function is transferred. The transfer of a function under this Act does not affect any right of a party to any legal proceeding begun before this Act took effect.