§ 40-50.1-16 — Vacation of plat - Before and after sale of lots - Effect

North Dakota § 40-50.1-16

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 40: Municipal Government
• Ch. 40-50.1: Platting of Townsites

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1. Before the sale of lots, a plat, any part of a plat, a subdivision of land, or a townsite
may be vacated by the proprietors by a written instrument declaring the plat to be
vacated. The instrument must be signed, acknowledged or approved, and recorded in
the office in which is recorded the instrument to be vacated. The signing and recording
of that instrument destroys the force and effect of the recording of the plat which is so
vacated and divests all public rights in the streets, alleys, easements, and public
grounds laid out as described in the plat.
2. If lots have been sold, a plat or any part of a plat may be vacated by all owners of the
lots in the plat joining in the signing of the instrument declaring the vacation. Vacation
of streets and public rights is not effective without endorsement by the governing body
that has the power to approve the plat. The endorsement must indicate the public
rights to be vacated.
40-50.1-17. Action by recorder.
The recorder shall write in plain, legible letters, in black ink that is not ballpoint ink, across
that part of a plat which has been vacated the word "vacated" and shall make a reference on the
plat to the volume and page or document number in which the instrument of vacation is
recorded.