PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO CITIES OF THE THIRD CLASS
Article 4.--GENERAL POWERS OF GOVERNING BODY
15-427.Street and alley improvements; vacation; reversion;
recordation of ordinance.
The council shall have power to open, widen, extend or otherwise improve
any street, avenue, alley, or lane; to create, open and improve any new
street, avenue, alley, or lane; and also to annul, vacate or discontinue
the same, whenever deemed necessary or expedient: Provided, That all
damages sustained by the citizens of the city, or the owners of the
property therein, shall be ascertained in the manner provided by law: And
provided further, That whenever any street, avenue, alley, or lane shall
be vacated, the same shall revert to the owners of real estate thereto
adjacent on each side, in proportion to the frontage of such real estate,
except in cases where such street, avenue, alley or lane shall have been
taken and appropriated to public use in a different proportion, in which
case it shall revert to adjacent lots of real estate in proportion as it
was taken from them.
Immediately after an ordinance opening, widening, extending or vacating
any street, avenue, alley or lane shall become effective, the clerk of the
city shall file a copy thereof which has been certified by him or her as a
true and correct copy in the office of the county clerk and in the office
of the register of deeds and the county clerk shall enter the same in the
transfer records of his or her 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: R.S. 1923, § 15-427; L. 1951, ch. 142, § 3; July 1.
PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO CITIES OF THE THIRD CLASS
Article 4.--GENERAL POWERS OF GOVERNING BODY
15-427.Street and alley improvements; vacation; reversion;
recordation of ordinance.
The council shall have power to open, widen, extend or otherwise improve
any street, avenue, alley, or lane; to create, open and improve any new
street, avenue, alley, or lane; and also to annul, vacate or discontinue
the same, whenever deemed necessary or expedient: Provided, That all
damages sustained by the citizens of the city, or the owners of the
property therein, shall be ascertained in the manner provided by law: And
provided further, That whenever any street, avenue, alley, or lane shall
be vacated, the same shall revert to the owners of real estate thereto
adjacent on each side, in proportion to the frontage of such real estate,
except in cases where such street, avenue, alley or lane shall have been
taken and appropriated to public use in a different proportion, in which
case it shall revert to adjacent lots of real estate in proportion as it
was taken from them.
Immediately after an ordinance opening, widening, extending or vacating
any street, avenue, alley or lane shall become effective, the clerk of the
city shall file a copy thereof which has been certified by him or her as a
true and correct copy in the office of the county clerk and in the office
of the register of deeds and the county clerk shall enter the same in the
transfer records of his or her 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: R.S. 1923, § 15-427; L. 1951, ch. 142, § 3; July 1.
PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO CITIES OF THE THIRD CLASS
Article 4.--GENERAL POWERS OF GOVERNING BODY
15-427.Street and alley improvements; vacation; reversion;
recordation of ordinance.
The council shall have power to open, widen, extend or otherwise improve
any street, avenue, alley, or lane; to create, open and improve any new
street, avenue, alley, or lane; and also to annul, vacate or discontinue
the same, whenever deemed necessary or expedient: Provided, That all
damages sustained by the citizens of the city, or the owners of the
property therein, shall be ascertained in the manner provided by law: And
provided further, That whenever any street, avenue, alley, or lane shall
be vacated, the same shall revert to the owners of real estate thereto
adjacent on each side, in proportion to the frontage of such real estate,
except in cases where such street, avenue, alley or lane shall have been
taken and appropriated to public use in a different proportion, in which
case it shall revert to adjacent lots of real estate in proportion as it
was taken from them.
Immediately after an ordinance opening, widening, extending or vacating
any street, avenue, alley or lane shall become effective, the clerk of the
city shall file a copy thereof which has been certified by him or her as a
true and correct copy in the office of the county clerk and in the office
of the register of deeds and the county clerk shall enter the same in the
transfer records of his or her 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: R.S. 1923, § 15-427; L. 1951, ch. 142, § 3; July 1.