§ 155.101 ACCEPTANCE OF PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
   (A)   After the village’s consulting engineer has approved the public improvements as described in § 155.062 of this chapter, the village’s consulting engineer shall issue a letter to the subdivider and the Village Board stating that the public improvements meet the village’s standards.
   (B)   Upon receipt of the letter from the village’s consulting engineer the subdivider shall execute and deliver to the village a dedication and bill of sale for public improvements in the form exemplified by § 155.011 of this chapter. Upon receipt of the document the Village Board shall by resolution accept the dedication and bill of sale and shall record the dedication and resolution with the Recorder of Deeds of the county.
   (C)   In areas within the village’s subdivision, but outside the village’s corporate limits, the village’s consulting engineer and County Superintendent of Highways and Springfield Metro Sanitary District, if appropriate shall jointly determine whether the standards of this chapter have been met. If met, the village’s consulting engineer shall so indicate in a letter to the subdivider and the Village Board, and the subdivider shall execute the dedication and bill of sale exemplified by § 155.011 of this chapter, modified as necessary to indicate dedication to the county or township of the roads, to the Springfield Metro Sanitary District of the sanitary sewers and to the appropriate governmental entity of the water system. The County Superintendent of Highways shall indicate in a letter to the village’s consulting engineer approval of the streets to county standards which shall constitute acceptance of the streets by the appropriate Township Highway Commissioner; the Executive Director of the Springfield Metro Sanitary District shall indicate in a letter to the village’s consulting engineer approval of applicable sanitary sewer facilities, but acceptance of the dedication by the Springfield Metro Sanitary District shall be by ordinance. Upon receipt of satisfactory evidence that the public improvements are accepted, the dedication shall be recorded by the village.
   (D)   Upon recordation of the dedication and bill of sale and resolution of acceptance, the village shall release the security.
(Prior Code, § 150.037) (Ord. 96-006, passed 2-5-1996)