15-427.   Street and alley improvements; vacation; reversion;recordation of ordinance.The council shall have power to open, widen, extend or otherwise improveany street, avenue, alley, or lane; to create, open and improve any newstreet, avenue, alley, or lane; and also to annul, vacate or discontinuethe same, whenever deemed necessary or expedient: Provided, That alldamages sustained by the citizens of the city, or the owners of theproperty therein, shall be ascertained in the manner provided by law: Andprovided further, That whenever any street, avenue, alley, or lane shallbe vacated, the same shall revert to the owners of real estate theretoadjacent on each side, in proportion to the frontage of such real estate,except in cases where such street, avenue, alley or lane shall have beentaken and appropriated to public use in a different proportion, in whichcase it shall revert to adjacent lots of real estate in proportion as itwas taken from them.

      Immediately after an ordinance opening, widening, extending or vacatingany street, avenue, alley or lane shall become effective, the clerk of thecity shall file a copy thereof which has been certified by him or her as atrue and correct copy in the office of the county clerk and in the officeof the register of deeds and the county clerk shall enter the same in thetransfer records of his or her office and the register of 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:   R.S. 1923, § 15-427; L. 1951, ch. 142, § 3; July 1.