445.030. Plat to be acknowledged and recorded--acceptance by city. - Missouri Statutes

Plat to be acknowledged and recorded--acceptance by city.

445.030. Such map or plat shall be acknowledged by theproprietor before some official authorized by law to takeacknowledgments of conveyances of real estate, and recorded inthe office of the recorder of deeds of the county in which theland platted is situated; provided, however, that if such map orplat be of land situated within the corporate limits of anyincorporated city, town or village, it shall not be placed ofrecord until it shall have been submitted to and approved by thecommon council of such city, town or village, by ordinance, dulypassed and approved by the mayor, and such approval endorsed uponsuch map or plat under the hand of the clerk and the seal of suchcity, town, or village; nor until all taxes against the sameshall have been paid; and before approving such plat, the commoncouncil may, in its discretion, require such changes oralterations thereon as may be found necessary to make such map orplat conform to any zoning or street development plan which mayhave been adopted or appear desirable, and to the requirements ofthe duly enacted ordinances of such city, town or village,appertaining to the laying out and platting of subdivisions ofland within their corporate limits.

(RSMo 1939 § 12805, A.L. 1943 p. 830)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 11181; 1919 § 9284; 1909 § 10291

(1961) Where a plat of subdivision was dedicated by the owner thereof to the city but the city failed to accept it or accepted it only conditionally the offer to dedicate the streets therein could not be revoked by the owner without the consent of all of the grantees of land in the subdivision. Ginter v. City of Webster Groves (Mo.), 349 S.W.2d 895.