Code of Alabama
Article 3 - Town Surveys, Plats, or Maps, Etc.
Section 35-2-56 - Mutilated, Lost, or Mislaid Maps or Plats.

Where land has been divided into lots, and the map or plat thereof mutilated, lost, or mislaid, and a part or all of the lots indicated therein have been sold, the owner thereof may cause a new survey to be made and a plat or map to be made therefrom, or reproduce the one mutilated, lost, or mislaid, from a survey already made, which new plat or map, if certified, acknowledged and recorded as required by law, shall have the same effect in all respects as a plat or map recorded under Section 35-2-50 and may be vacated in the same manner and under the same conditions as plats or maps may be vacated.