Effective: July 28, 1973
Latest Legislation: House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly
Upon the institution of proceedings by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, the board of county commissioners of a county, the department of transportation of the state, or an individual, partnership, or corporation in the court of common pleas, for the vacation of any public streets, alley, avenue, lane, road, boulevard, driveway, or other public way, or any portion thereof, in a village, or addition to or subdivision in a municipal corporation, a plat, map or other plane representation showing such public way sought to be vacated, and all intersecting or connective public ways, shall be prepared and certified to by a licensed surveyor or engineer, and shall form a part of the petition and proceedings for such vacation. Any such public way sought to be vacated shall be shown on said plat by measurements, descriptions, coloring, hatched lines, or other method of identification to distinguish the extent, limit, width, and area of the public way or parts thereof sought to be vacated from those not vacated.
Such plat, map, or plane representation shall be transferred in the office of the county auditor and recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which said land is located in the same manner as are plats originally transferred and recorded.
Upon the filing of said plat, map, or plane representation with the county recorder, a cross reference to the record of the vacated portion of the plat shall be made by the recorder on the original plat of the village, or addition to or subdivision in the municipal corporation by which the dedication was made.
Upon the institution of proceedings to vacate platted lots of a village, or addition to or subdivision in a municipal corporation for the purpose of returning such lots as acreage to the tax duplicate, the same procedure shall be required.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 7 | Municipal Corporations
Section 711.001 | Plat Definitions.
Section 711.01 | Plat of Proposed Village or Addition.
Section 711.02 | Contents of Plat.
Section 711.03 | Cornerstones, Markers, and Iron Pins.
Section 711.04 | Acknowledgment and Recording.
Section 711.041 | Approval of Plats Outside Municipal Corporation.
Section 711.05 | Approval or Rejection - Rules to Govern Plats.
Section 711.06 | Plat of Subdivision - Acknowledgment and Record.
Section 711.07 | Fee Shall Vest in Municipal Corporation.
Section 711.09 | Plats to Be Approved by Planning Commission.
Section 711.091 | Inspection of Street Construction.
Section 711.103 | Tentative Approval of Plat by Planning Commission.
Section 711.104 | Entry of Lots Shown on Plat Upon Tax List.
Section 711.11 | Fee Simple Title.
Section 711.121 | Evidence of Legality of Conveyance by Metes and Bounds by Affidavit.
Section 711.13 | Transfer of Land Before Recording - Forfeiture.
Section 711.131 | Approval Without Plat.
Section 711.132 | Effective Date of Planning Commission Rules.
Section 711.133 | Procedure for Approval of Qualifying Division Without Plat.
Section 711.14 | Planting of Cornerstone - Forfeiture.
Section 711.15 | Disposal of Lots - Forfeiture.
Section 711.16 | Directors to Lay Out Village Where County Seat Located.
Section 711.17 | Vacation of Plat.
Section 711.18 | Application for Vacating or Altering Plat - Notice.
Section 711.19 | Vacation of Plat by Court Action.
Section 711.20 | Record - Party Defendant.
Section 711.21 | Commons May Be Changed Into Streets.
Section 711.22 | Clerk's Fees.
Section 711.23 | Application for Vacation and Assessment of Damages.
Section 711.24 | Changing of Town Lots.
Section 711.28 | Lots May Be Revised and Renumbered.
Section 711.29 | Mode of Renumbering.
Section 711.30 | New Numbers Shall Be Legal Designation.
Section 711.31 | Payment of Expenses.
Section 711.32 | Numbering of Additions or Subdivisions After Revision.
Section 711.34 | Application to Supply Lost or Destroyed Records.
Section 711.35 | Publication of Notice.
Section 711.36 | Order by Board to Replat.
Section 711.37 | Record of Plat and Certificate.
Section 711.38 | Record of Proceedings.