13-443.   Improving or vacating streets and alleys;reversion of land; recording of ordinance.The governing body of the city shall have the power to open, widen,extend or otherwise improve any street, avenue, alley orlane, and also to vacate and close any street, avenue, alley or lane orportion thereof. Before the governing body opens, widens or extends any street,avenue, alley or lane it shall proceed tocondemn or acquire by purchase or gift the necessary lands as provided bylaw.

      When any street, avenue, alley or lane is vacated it shall revert to theowners of land thereto adjoining on each side, in proportion to thefrontage of such land, except in cases where such street, avenue, alley orlane may have been taken for public use in a different proportion, in whichcase it shall revert to the adjoining land in the same proportion as it wastaken from it.

      Immediately after an ordinance opening, widening, extending or vacatingany street, avenue, alley or lane becomes effective,the clerk of thecity shall file a copy thereof which has been certified bythe city clerk as atrue and correct copy in the office of the county clerk and in the officeof the register of deeds. The county clerk shall enter the same in thetransfer records of [the] county clerk's office and the registerof deeds shallrecord the same in the deed records of the county and no fee shall becharged by the county clerk or register of deeds for such entering orrecording.

      History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 64; R.S. 1923, § 13-443; L. 1951,ch. 142, § 1; L. 1963, ch. 234, § 27; L. 1984, ch. 65, § 5; July 1.