§ 155.009 SECONDARY APPROVAL CERTIFICATES.
   (A)   The Plan Director may issue a secondary approval certificate as follows.
      (1)   Certificates of approval by the appropriate public officials and also by public utility officials, concerning the satisfactory completion of improvements within their respective jurisdiction, shall be on file when required.
      (2)   Certificate of approval by the County Attorney, as to dedication of streets or roads and any covenants or restrictions therein, shall be on file when required.
      (3)   A certificate by the County Treasurer, to the effect that there are no unpaid taxes or unpaid special assessments on any of the land included in the subdivision, shall be on file when required.
      (4)   Each secondary plat, submitted to the Commission for approval, shall carry a certificate signed by a registered professional engineer or land surveyor in substantially the following form:
 
I,                                    , hereby certify that I am a professional engineer, (or land surveyor), licensed in compliance with the laws of the State of Indiana; that this plat correctly represents a survey completed by me on                                                              ; that all the monuments shown thereon actually exist; and that their location, size, type and material are accurately shown.
(SEAL)
                                                               
Signature
 
   (B)   Each secondary plat submitted to the Commission for approval shall carry a deed of dedication in substantially the following form:
 
We, the undersigned,                                                  , owners of the real estate shown and described herein, do hereby certify that we have laid off, platted and subdivided, and hereby lay off, plat and subdivide, said real estate in accordance with the within plat.
This subdivision shall be known and designated as                                        , an addition to                           . All streets and alleys shown and not heretofore dedicated are hereby dedicated to the public.
Front yard building set back lines are hereby established as shown on this plat, between which lines and the property lines of the street, there shall be erected or maintained no building or structure.
There are strips of ground               feet in width as shown on this plat and marked, “Easement”, reserved for the use of public utilities for the installation of water, gas and sewer mains, poles, ducts, lines and wires, subject at all times to the proper authorities and to the easement herein reserved. No permanent buildings 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 the public utilities. No pipe, tile or any other obstruction shall be placed in any street drain side ditch without written approval of the County Highway Department.
(Additional dedications and protective covenants, on private restrictions, would be inserted here upon the subdivider’s initiative or the recommendation of the Commission or listed on separate sheets and referred to in this deed of dedication giving date, book and page location of said separate covenants; important provisions are those in the case of residential use, the minimum habitable floor area.)
The foregoing covenants (or restrictions) are to run with the land and shall be binding on all parties and all persons claiming under them until January                ,             , (a 25-year period is suggested), at which time said covenants (or restrictions) shall be automatically extended for successive periods of ten years, unless changed by vote of a majority of the then owners of the building sites covered by these covenants (or restrictions), which shall remain in full force and effect.
The right to enforce these provisions by injunction, together with the right to cause the removal, by due process of law, of any structure or part thereof, erected or maintained in violation hereof, is hereby dedicated to the public, and reserved to the several owners of the several lots in this subdivision and to their heirs and assigns.
Witness our hands and seals this               day of                             ,             .
State of Indiana
County of Wayne
   Before me the undersigned notary public, in and for the County and State, personally appeared                           ,              , and each separately and severally acknowledge 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                          ,               .
                                                               
   Notary Public
 
   (C)   The following shall be attached for certification by the Commission:
 
Under authority provided by I.C. 36-7-04, enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, and all acts amendatory thereof, and an ordinance adopted by the Wayne County Board of Commissioners, this plat was given secondary approval by the Wayne County Plan Commission as follows:                                                                                            
Secondary approval, granted by the Wayne County Plan Commission at a meeting held                 .
                                                                   
Secretary
 
(1982 Code, § 55.190) (Ord. passed 4-21-1993; Ord. passed 7-25-2001)