§ 11-41-108. Plat record specifications.  


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  • Any plat submitted for recording shall have the following specifications:

    1.  The dimensions of the plat shall be twenty-four (24) by thirty-six (36) inches or shall be a size that can be properly and conveniently folded to these dimensions and shall be drawn to a minimum scale of one hundred (100) feet to the inch; except that plats in which all lots contain a net area in excess of forty thousand (40,000) square feet, the plat may be drawn to a scale of two hundred (200) feet to the inch;

    2.  The drawing surface of the plat shall have a binding margin of two (2) inches at the left side of the plat, a margin of not less than one (1) inch at the right side, and a margin of not less than one and one-half (1 1/2) inches at the top and bottom;

    3.  The original tracing of each plat and two prints thereof and a reduced copy in the dimensions of eight and one-half (8 1/2) inches by eleven (11) inches shall be presented for recording;

    4.  The original plat shall be an original drawing made with india ink on a good grade linen tracing cloth, or with a suitable black acetate base ink on a stable polyester base film coated upon completion with a suitable plastic material to prevent flaking and to assure permanent legibility, or a print on a stable polyester base film made by photographic processes from a film scribing tested for residual hypo with an approved hypo testing solution to assure permanency;

    5.  Marginal lines, standard certificates and approval forms may be printed or legibly stamped on the plat with permanent opaque black ink when permitted by local ordinance; and

    6.  The county clerk may require one of the prints to be a blueprint cloth and the other print to be a photographic matte film positive.

Added by Laws 1977, c. 256, § 41-108, eff. July 1, 1978.  Amended by Laws 2007, c. 132, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2007.

Note

NOTE:  Laws 2007, c. 100, § 1 repealed by Laws 2008, c. 3, § 8, emerg. eff. Feb. 28, 2008.