CHAPTER 159: SUBDIVISION CONTROL
Section
General Provisions
   159.001   Definitions
   159.002   Application of provisions; exceptions
   159.003   Variances
   159.004   Amendments
   159.005   Chapter incorporated into comprehensive plan
General Platting Procedures
   159.020   Subdivision; plat required
   159.021   Preliminary plat required
   159.022   Improvements; final plat required
   159.023   Filing final plat for record
Preliminary Plat
   159.035   Submission; fee
   159.036   Required data
   159.037   Plan Commission recommendation
   159.038   Submission to Council; copies
   159.039   Approved plat; construction of improvements
Final Plat
   159.050   Drafting specifications
   159.051   Required data
   159.052   Submission; conformance; Plan Commission recommendation
   159.053   Recording approved final plat; time limit
Design Standards
   159.065   Design standards; conformance required
   159.066   Street layout and names
   159.067   Street and alley widths
   159.068   Easements
   159.069   Blocks; layout
   159.070   Lot requirements
   159.071   Improvements outside corporate limits; maintenance
   159.072   Dedication of public use land
   159.073   Dedication of easements along drainage ways
Improvements
   159.085   Improvements required prior to final approval; bond
   159.086   Partial improvement of tract; requirements
   159.087   Survey monuments
   159.088   Streets
   159.089   Sidewalks
   159.090   Water system
   159.091   Sewers inside or adjacent to city
   159.092   Sewers outside city
   159.093   Drainage
Cross-reference:
   Plan Commission, see §§ 150.01 et seq.
Statutory reference:
   Authority to regulate subdivision, see ILCS Chapter 65, Act 5, §§ 11-12-4 et seq.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 159.001 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   MAJOR STREET. A delineated street shown on the major street plan, a part of the official plan.
   PLANS. All drawings, including general plans, cross-sections, profiles, working details, and specifications which the subdivider prepares or has prepared to show the character, extent, and details of the improvements required in § 159.039 of this code.
   PLAT. A map or drawing showing the lot and street arrangement or other features or details of the area being subdivided as required in this chapter for preliminary and final approval and recording.
(1969 Code, § 23-1) (Ord. 1961-12, passed 4-24-1961; Am. Ord. 1968-22, passed 6-3-1968)
§ 159.002 APPLICATION OF PROVISIONS; EXCEPTIONS.
   (A)   Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, whenever the owner of land subdivides it into 2 or more parts, any of which is less than 5 acres, he or she must have it surveyed and a plat thereof made by a registered land surveyor, which plat must particularly describe and set forth all public streets, alleys, ways for public service facilities, parks, playgrounds, school grounds, or other public grounds, and all the tracts, parcels, lots, or blocks, and numbering of all the lots, blocks, or parcels by progressive numbers, giving their precise dimensions. The plat must provide further and include therein all additional information required of plats by the laws of the state.
   (B)   The requirements contained in division (A) do not apply and no plat is required in any of the following instances:
      (1)   The division or subdivision of land into parcels or tracts of 5 acres or more in size which does not involve any new streets or easements of access;
      (2)   The division of lots or blocks of less than 1 acre in any recorded subdivision which does not involve any new streets or easements of access;
      (3)   The sale or exchange of parcels of land between owners of adjoining or contiguous land;
      (4)   The conveyance of parcels of land or interests therein for use as a right-of-way for railroads or other public utility facilities and other pipelines which does not involve any new streets or easements of access;
      (5)   The conveyance of land owned by a railroad or other public utility which does not involve any new streets or easements of access;
      (6)   The conveyance of land for highways or other public purposes or grants or conveyances relating to the dedication of land for public use or instruments relating to the vacation of land impressed for public use;
      (7)   Conveyance made to correct descriptions in prior conveyances; or
      (8)   The sale or exchange of parcels or tracts of land following the division into no more than 2 parts of a particular parcel or tract of land existing on July 17, 1959, and not involving any new streets or easements of access.
(1969 Code, § 23-2) (Ord. 1968-22, passed 6-3-1968)
Statutory reference:
   Plat requirements, see ILCS Chapter 65, Act 5, §§ 11-12-8, 11-12-12
   Plat Act, see ILCS Chapter 765, Act 210, §§ 0.01 et seq.
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