A proprietor of lots or grounds within the City who subdivides or lays them out for sale, shall cause to be made an accurate map or plat of such subdivision, describing with certainty all grounds laid out, or granted for streets, alleys, ways, commons or other public uses. Lots sold or intended for sale shall be numbered by progressive numbers, or described by the square in which situated, and the precise length and width shall be given of each lot sold or intended for sale. Such map or plat shall be subscribed by the proprietor, or his or her agent duly authorized in writing, acknowledged before an officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds, and recorded in the office of the County Recorder.
(Amended by electors 11-7-00)
The map or plat recorded shall thereupon be a sufficient conveyance to vest in the City the fee of parcel or parcels of land designated or intended for streets, alleys, ways, commons, or other public uses, to be held in the corporate name in trust to and for the uses and purposes in the instrument set forth, expressed, designated or intended.
The Director of Public Service shall be the Platting Commissioner of the City. Subject to the approval of the City Plan Commission, he or she shall provide regulations governing the platting of all kinds of lands so as to require all streets and alleys to be of proper width, and to be coterminous with adjoining streets and alleys, and otherwise to conform with the regulations prescribed by the Commission. Whenever the Council shall deem it expedient to plat any portion of territory within the City limits, in which the necessary or convenient streets or alleys have not already been accepted by the City so as to become public streets, or when any person plats any land within the corporate limits or within three miles thereof, if such plats are in accordance with the rules as approved by the City Plan Commission, the Commissioner shall endorse his or her written approval thereon. No plat subdividing lands within the corporate limits, or within three miles thereof, shall be entitled to record in the County Recorder's office without such written approval so endorsed thereon.
(Amended by electors 11-7-00)
No streets or alleys, except those laid down on such plat and bearing the approval of the Platting Commissioner, as hereinbefore provided, shall subsequently in any way be accepted as public streets, or alleys, nor shall any public funds be expended in the repair or improvement of streets and alleys subsequently laid out and not on such plat. This restriction shall not apply to a street or alley laid out by the City, nor to streets, alleys or public grounds laid out on a plat by or with the approval of the Platting Commissioner.
No street or alley dedicated to public use by the proprietor of ground in the City shall be deemed a public street or alley or under the care or control of the Council unless the dedication be accepted and confirmed by ordinance passed for such purpose, or unless the provisions hereof relating to subdivisions shall have been complied with.
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