Code of Alabama
Article 3 - Town Surveys, Plats, or Maps, Etc.
Section 35-2-55 - Validation, Ratification, and Confirmation of Vacation of Streets, Etc.

Every change in location, or vacation, or attempted vacation of any road, street, avenue, or alley, or any part thereof, by the owner or owners of lands abutting thereon, or upon which such road, street, avenue, or alley is located, when such vacation, or attempted vacation, or change of location was in a city or town and was assented to, acquiesced in, or authorized by the governing body thereof (or if it was without a city or town when such vacation, or attempted vacation, or change of location when made was assented to, acquiesced in, or authorized by the county commission, or which has been or may be hereafter ratified or confirmed by the county commission) is and shall be validated, ratified, and confirmed, and all rights of the public in any such road, street, avenue, or alley, or the part thereof so vacated, or attempted to be vacated, including all rights acquired by prescription, are and shall be relinquished or abandoned.