(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.