A. Any plat or any part of any plat may be vacated by the owner of the premises at any time before the sale of any lot therein by a written instrument, to which a copy of such plat shall be attached, declaring the same to be vacated, following court action, as required by State law.
B. Such an instrument shall be approved by the Planning Commission in like manner as plats of subdivisions. The City Council may reject any such instrument which abridges or destroys any public rights in any of its public uses, improvements, streets, or alleys.
C. Such an instrument shall be executed, acknowledged, or approved and recorded or filed in like manner as plats of subdivisions and being duly recorded or filed shall operate to destroy the force and effect of the recording of the plat so vacated and to divest all public rights in the streets, alleys, public grounds, and all dedications laid out or described in such plat.
D. When lots have been sold, the plat may be vacated in the manner provided in this section by all of the owners of lots in such plat joining in the execution of such writing, subsequent to court action as required by applicable State law.
(Code 1991, § 12-408)