It shall be unlawful for the owner, agent, or person having control of any land within the corporate limits of the city or within 1½ miles of its corporate limits and not included within or closer to the corporate limits of any other incorporated community, to subdivide or lay out that land into lots, blocks, streets, avenues, alleys, public ways, and grounds, unless by a plat in accordance with the laws of the state and the provisions of this chapter. Each subdivider of land shall confer with local officials before preparing the preliminary plat, in order to become thoroughly familiar with all the regulations and the official plan proposals affecting the territory in which the subdivision lies.
(1969 Code, § 23-16) (Ord. 1961-12, passed 4-24-1961) Penalty, see § 10.99