Title 16 SUBDIVISIONS*
Chapter 16.04 GENERAL PROVISIONS
16.04.100 Vacation of plats.
The following are pursuant to Chapter 109, Section 6,
Illinois Revised Statutes, 1977, as amended:
A. Any plat or any part of any plat may be vacated by the
owner of the premises, at any time before the sale of any lot therein, by a
written instrument, to which a copy of such plat shall be attached, declaring
the same to be vacated.
B. Such an instrument shall be approved by the village board
in like manner as plats of subdivisions. The village board may reject any such
instrument which abridges or destroys any public rights in any of its public
uses, improvements, streets or alleys.
C. Such an instrument shall be executed, acknowledged or
approved, and recorded or filed, in like manner as plats of subdivisions; and
being duly recorded or filed shall operate to destroy the force and effect of
the recording of the plat so vacated, and to divest all public rights in the
streets, alleys and public grounds, and all dedications laid out or described in
such plat.
D. When lots have been sold, the plat may be vacated in the
manner herein provided by all the owners of lots in such plat joining in the
execution of such writing. (Subdivision Ordinance dated 6/3/03 §
1-10)