The following forms shall be used in Final Plats:
Each Final Plat submitted to the Plan Commission for approval shall carry a deed of dedication in substantially the following form:
"We, the undersigned (names), Owners of the real estate shown and described herein, do hereby certify that we have laid off, platted and subdivided, and do hereby lay off, plat and subdivide, said real estate in accordance with the Plat.
This Subdivision shall be known and designated as (name), an addition to (name). All street, alleys and easements shown and not heretofore dedicated, are hereby dedicated, to the Town of Schererville.
Front and side yard building set-back lines are hereby established as shown on this Plat, between which line and the property lines of the Street, there shall be erected or maintained no building or structure. There are strips of ground (number) feet in width as shown on this Plat and marked "Easement", as further described hereafter, reserved for the use of public utilities for the installation of water and sewer mains, poles, ducts, lines and wires, subject at all times to the proper authorities and to the easement herein reserved. No permanent or other structures are to be erected or maintained upon said strips of land, but owners of lots in this subdivision shall take their titles subject to the rights of public utilities."
"Easements for Public Utilities are hereby granted to Northern Indiana Public Service Company, Indiana Bell Telephone Company, the Town of Schererville and Cable Television Companies, jointly and severally, together with their respective heirs, successors and assigns to install, lay, erect, construct, renew, repair, operate and maintain sewers, water mains, gas mains, conduits, cables and wires, both overhead and underground, in upon, along and over those strips of ground designated on the plat by dotted lines and marked "Easement" including those immediate areas not so marked but extending from said strips of ground, whereupon overhead or underground facilities as stated above shall exist for the direct service to the real estate herein platted for the purpose of serving the public in general with sewer, gas, electric, telephone and cable television service, including the right to use said easement for the conveyance, channelization, collection and dispersal of surface water runoff and the right to use both public and private Street right-of-ways when necessary, together with the right to enter upon said easements at all times for any and all of the purposes aforesaid, and to trim and keep trimmed any trees, shrubs, or sapplings that interfere with the normal use, operation or maintenance of any such utility equipment, together with the right to grade or regrade the surface or to remove obstructions to surface drainage. No permanent building or structures shall be placed on said easement, but the same may be used for gardens, planting, landscaping, fencing and other purposes that do not interfere with the use of said easement for said Public Utility and drainage purposes."
(Additional dedications and protective covenants or private restrictions would be inserted here upon the Subdivided initiative or the recommendations of the Plan Commission; important provisions are those specifying the use to be made of the property and, in the case of residential use, the minimum floor area.)
Where covenants or restrictions are inserted in any Plat, they shall provide that invalidation of any one of the same by judgment or Court Order shall in no way affect any of the other covenants or restrictions which shall remain in full force and effect. The covenants and restrictions shall further provide the right to enforce those provisions by injunction, together with the right to cause the removal, by due process of law, of any structure or part hereof erected or maintained in violation thereof, is hereby dedicated to the Public, and reserved to the several Owners of the several lots in said Subdivision and to their Heirs and Assigns.
(Ord. No. 1145, § 1, 4-11-90)
Acknowledgment
Each Final Plat submitted to the Plan Commission for approval shall carry an acknowledgment in substantially the following form:
I. State of Indiana )
)SS:
County of Lake )
Submitted to, and approved by the Plan Commission of the Town of Schererville, Lake County, Indiana, this day of___, 19_.
By: ______________ Attest: ___________
Plan Comm. President Plan Comm. Secretary
II. State of Indiana )
)SS:
County of Lake )
Before me the undersigned Notary Public, in and for the County and State, personally appeared (name), (name), and each, separately and severally, acknowledged the execution of the foregoing instrument as his or her voluntary act and deed, for the purpose therein expressed. Witness my hand and Notarial Seal this _ day of _, 19_.
________________
Notary Public
Resident of________County.
Commission Expires:_______
(Ord. No. 1145, § 2, 4-11-90)