Indiana § 36-7-3-5 Surveying, platting, and numbering of tracts of land in municipality;
requisites, approval, and recording of plat; public ways

Indiana Statutes

§ 36-7-3-5 — Surveying, platting, and numbering of tracts of land in municipality; requisites, approval, and recording of plat; public ways

Indiana § 36-7-3-5

Title 36LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Art. 7PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Ch. 3Platting and Vacation of Real Property

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Ind. Code § 36-7-3-5 (2026).

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(a)If there are five (5) or more specific tracts of land in a municipality that:

(1)approximate in size any of the platted lots in the municipality;

(2)are not platted or numbered; and

(3)are near or contiguous to each other; the municipal legislative body may cause the tracts to be surveyed, platted, and given a specific number on the plat. If the survey and plat are approved by the legislative body and recorded in the platbook records of the county in which the municipality is located, they have the same legal effect as if they had been made by the owners of the tracts under section 3 of this chapter.

(b)Tracts surveyed under this section may be described and conveyed by the numbers assigned to them, in the same manner as other platted lots. However, a new public way may be laid out

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(a) If there are five (5) or more specific tracts of
land in a municipality that:
(1) approximate in size any of the platted lots in the municipality;
(2) are not platted or numbered; and
(3) are near or contiguous to each other;
the municipal legislative body may cause the tracts to be surveyed,
platted, and given a specific number on the plat. If the survey and plat
are approved by the legislative body and recorded in the platbook
records of the county in which the municipality is located, they have
the same legal effect as if they had been made by the owners of the
tracts under section 3 of this chapter.
(b) Tracts surveyed under this section may be described and
conveyed by the numbers assigned to them, in the same manner as
other platted lots. However, a new public way may be laid out or
opened only with the written consent of the owner of the real property
to be affected.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation:
18-5-10-36.]
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.22.