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Home » US Law » 2022 Code of Alabama » Title 35 - Property. » Chapter 2 - Surveys. » Article 3 - Town Surveys, Plats, or Maps, Etc. » Section 35-2-56 – Mutilated, Lost, or Mislaid Maps or Plats.

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 to be made therefrom, or reproduce the one mutilated, lost, or mislaid, from a survey already made, which new plat or map, if certified, acknowledged and recorded as required by law, shall have the same effect in all respects as a plat or map recorded under Section 35-2-50 and may be vacated in the same manner and under the same conditions as plats or maps may be vacated.

(Code 1896, §3904; Code 1907, §6033; Code 1923, §10363; Code 1940, T. 56, §19.)