13-443. Improving or vacating streets and alleys; reversion of land; recording of ordinance.
13-443
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 or
lane, and also to vacate and close any street, avenue, alley or lane or
portion thereof. Before the governing body opens, widens or extends any street,
avenue, alley or lane it shall proceed to
condemn or acquire by purchase or gift the necessary lands as provided by
law.
When any street, avenue, alley or lane is vacated it shall revert to the
owners of land thereto adjoining on each side, in proportion to the
frontage of such land, except in cases where such street, avenue, alley or
lane may have been taken for public use in a different proportion, in which
case it shall revert to the adjoining land in the same proportion as it was
taken from it.
Immediately after an ordinance opening, widening, extending or vacating
any street, avenue, alley or lane becomes effective,
the clerk of the
city shall file a copy thereof which has been certified by
the city clerk as a
true and correct copy in the office of the county clerk and in the office
of the register of deeds. The county clerk shall enter the same in the
transfer records of [the] county clerk's office and the register
of deeds shall
record the same in the deed records of the county and no fee shall be
charged by the county clerk or register of deeds for such entering or
recording.
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.