Section 35-2-50 Survey required; what plat or map must show. Any person, or his administrator, executor or guardian, desiring to subdivide his lands into lots shall cause the same to be surveyed by a competent surveyor, if not already surveyed, and shall cause a plat or map thereof to be made, showing the subdivisions into […]
Section 35-2-51 Certification, acknowledgment, and recordation of plat or map; copies as evidence; conveyance. (a) The plat or map having been completed shall be certified by the surveyor, which certificate must also be signed by the owner, his duly authorized agent or attorney, executor, administrator, or guardian and acknowledged by such owner, agent, or attorney, […]
Section 35-2-52 Approval of municipal authorities required. It shall be the duty of every probate judge in this state to decline to receive for record in his office any map or plat upon which any lands lying within the corporate limits or police jurisdiction of any city of this state having a population of more […]
Section 35-2-53 Vacation of plat or map by owner of lands. Any plat or map, whether or not executed and recorded as provided in this article, may be vacated by the owner, his executor, administrator, or guardian of the lands at any time before the sale of any lot therein by a written instrument declaring […]
Section 35-2-54 Vacation of streets or alleys by abutting landowners. Any street or alley shown by any map, plat, or survey, whether such map or plat is executed and recorded as provided by law or not, may be vacated, in whole or in part, by the owner or owners of the lands abutting the street […]
Section 35-2-55 Validation, ratification, and confirmation of vacation of streets, etc. Every change in location, or vacation, or attempted vacation of any road, street, avenue, or alley, or any part thereof, by the owner or owners of lands abutting thereon, or upon which such road, street, avenue, or alley is located, when such vacation, or […]
Section 35-2-56 Mutilated, lost, or mislaid maps or plats. Where land has been divided into lots, and the map or plat thereof mutilated, lost, or mislaid, and a part or all of the lots indicated therein have been sold, the owner thereof may cause a new survey to be made and a plat or map […]
Section 35-2-57 Duty of probate judge upon recording vacated map or plat. When a map or plat or part thereof is vacated, the judge of probate must, upon recording such vacation, write in plain letters across the record of the map or plat, or the part so vacated, the word “vacated” and shall also refer […]
Section 35-2-58 Vacation and annulment of map or plat, etc., by circuit court – Jurisdiction; parties. The circuit courts of this state shall have jurisdiction and power to vacate and annul any map, plat, or survey of lands, or any streets, alleys, avenues, or roads, whether designated by any such maps, plats, or surveys or […]
Section 35-2-59 Vacation and annulment of map or plat, etc., by circuit court – Conduct of proceedings; entry of judgment; appeals. The proceedings for vacating and annulling such maps, plats, surveys, roads, streets, or alleys shall be conducted in all respects as civil actions are conducted and the circuit court may prescribe all rules and […]
Section 35-2-60 Vacation and annulment of map or plat, etc., by circuit court – Recordation of judgment. If the final judgment or order of the court provides that any map, plat, survey, road, street, or alley shall be vacated or annulled in whole or in part, the petition or complaint, together with the final order […]
Section 35-2-61 Fee for recordation and registration. The party filing such petition, complaint, order, or judgment for recording and registration shall pay the recording or registration officer a fee of $.15 per 100 words for so recording or registering such documents in such office. (Code 1923, §10368; Code 1940, T. 56, §24.)
Section 35-2-62 Remedies not exclusive. The remedies provided in this article for vacating maps, plats, surveys, streets, alleys, etc., shall not be held to be exclusive, but alternative or cumulative. (Code 1923, §10369; Code 1940, T. 56, §25.)
