Ohio Revised Code Chapter 711 - Plats

• Section 711.001 - Plat Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Plat" means a map of a tract or parcel of land. (B) "Subdivision" means either of the following:...
• Section 711.01 - Plat Of Proposed Village Or Addition.
  Any person may lay out a village, or subdivision or addition to a municipal corporation, by causing the territory to be surveyed, and by...
• Section 711.02 - Contents Of Plat.
  (A) In-lots intended for sale shall be numbered in progressive numbers, or by the squares in which situated, and their precise length and width...
• Section 711.03 - Cornerstones, Markers, And Iron Pins.
  At the time of surveying and laying out a village, or subdivision or addition to a municipal corporation, the proprietor of such village, or...
• Section 711.04 - Acknowledgment And Recording.
  After a plat of a subdivision is completed, it shall be certified by the surveyor and acknowledged by the owner before an officer authorized...
• Section 711.041 - Approval Of Plats Outside Municipal Corporation.
  No plat certifying lands outside a municipal corporation may be recorded without the approval thereon of the board of county commissioners of the county...
• Section 711.05 - Approval Or Rejection - Rules To Govern Plats.
  (A) Upon the submission of a plat for approval, in accordance with section 711.041 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall...
• Section 711.06 - Plat Of Subdivision - Acknowledgment And Record.
  A proprietor of lots or grounds in a municipal corporation, who subdivides or lays them out for sale, shall make an accurate plat of...
• Section 711.07 - Fee Shall Vest In Municipal Corporation.
  Upon recording, as required by section 711.06 of the Revised Code, the plat shall thereupon be a sufficient conveyance to vest in the municipal...
• Section 711.08 - Map Or Plat By Platting Commission Must Be Approved By City Engineer Or Legislative Authority.
  When plats adopted by a platting commission or board of public works are on record, the plat mentioned in section 711.06 of the Revised...
• Section 711.09 - Plats To Be Approved By Planning Commission.
  (A) (1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, when a city planning commission adopts a plan for the major streets...
• Section 711.091 - Inspection Of Street Construction.
  The city or village engineer in the case of lands within a city or village, and the county engineer in the case of lands...
• Section 711.10 - Platting In Unincorporated Territory - County Or Regional Planning Commission To Adopt Rules.
  (A) Whenever a county planning commission or a regional planning commission adopts a plan for the major streets or highways of the county or...
• Section 711.101 - General Rules Setting Standards And Requiring And Securing Construction Of Improvements Shown On The Plats And Plans.
  As to land falling within its jurisdiction or the jurisdiction of its planning commission, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, or the board...
• Section 711.102 - Violations.
  Whoever willfully violates any rule or regulation adopted by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or a board of county commissioners pursuant to...
• Section 711.103 - Tentative Approval Of Plat By Planning Commission.
  When, prior to June 1, 1953, a subdivision plat has been tentatively approved by a planning commission, and lots have been transferred from the...
• Section 711.104 - Entry Of Lots Shown On Plat Upon Tax List.
  When a plat has been recorded under the provisions of section 711.103 of the Revised Code, the lots shown thereon shall be entered upon...
• Section 711.11 - Fee Simple Title.
  The plats, mentioned in section 711.01 of the Revised Code, shall be a sufficient conveyance to vest a fee simple title of all such...
• Section 711.12 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 130th General Assembly File No. 41, HB 72, §2, eff. 1/30/2014. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 711.121 - Evidence Of Legality Of Conveyance By Metes And Bounds By Affidavit.
  The county auditor and the county recorder shall not transfer property or record deeds or leases which attempt to convey property contrary to the...
• Section 711.13 - Transfer Of Land Before Recording - Forfeiture.
  Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land within or without a municipal corporation, willfully transfers any lot, parcel, or...
• Section 711.131 - Approval Without Plat.
  (A) Notwithstanding sections 711.001 to 711.13 of the Revised Code and except as provided in division (C) of this section, unless the rules adopted...
• Section 711.132 - Effective Date Of Planning Commission Rules.
  No rule or regulation of a planning commission adopted pursuant to this chapter, including any rule adopted under section 711.133 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 711.133 - Procedure For Approval Of Qualifying Division Without Plat.
  (A) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in sections 711.001 to 711.13 of the Revised Code, rules may be adopted and amended that require a...
• Section 711.14 - Planting Of Cornerstone - Forfeiture.
  Any person who lays out a village or an addition to a municipal corporation, and neglects to plant the cornerstones therein, or causes such...
• Section 711.15 - Disposal Of Lots - Forfeiture.
  Any person who disposes of, offers for sale, or leases for a time exceeding five years, any lot, or any part of a lot,...
• Section 711.151 - Exceptions.
  Sections 711.001 to 711.151 of the Revised Code do not apply to conveyances executed and delivered prior to October 16, 1953 and to conveyances...
• Section 711.16 - Directors To Lay Out Village Where County Seat Located.
  The directors appointed by the court of common pleas to lay out a village, where a seat of justice is situated, shall be governed...
• Section 711.17 - Vacation Of Plat.
  Upon the application of two thirds of the proprietors of land described in a plat of a municipal corporation, the court of common pleas...
• Section 711.18 - Application For Vacating Or Altering Plat - Notice.
  Applications for vacating or altering a plat, addition, or part thereof, shall be by petition in writing, filed with the clerk of the court...
• Section 711.19 - Vacation Of Plat By Court Action.
  If the petitioners for the alteration or vacation of a plat under section 711.17 of the Revised Code produce to the court of common...
• Section 711.20 - Record - Party Defendant.
  The proceedings for vacating or altering a plat under sections 711.17 to 711.19 of the Revised Code, shall be recorded by the clerk of...
• Section 711.21 - Commons May Be Changed Into Streets.
  On application made and notice given according to sections 711.17 and 711.18 of the Revised Code, the court of common pleas may change any...
• Section 711.22 - Clerk's Fees.
  The clerk of the court of common pleas, for recording a plat required to be recorded under sections 711.17 to 711.21, inclusive, of the...
• Section 711.23 - Application For Vacation And Assessment Of Damages.
  As used in this section, "incompetent person" means a person who is so mentally impaired as a result of a mental or physical illness...
• Section 711.24 - Changing Of Town Lots.
  Any person owning, either jointly or severally, and either in his own right or in trust, and having the legal title to any land...
• Section 711.25 - Vacation Of Lots Not Within A Municipal Corporation.
  Any person owning, either jointly or severally, either in his own right or in trust, and having the legal title to any land laid...
• Section 711.26 - Auditor Shall Make Changes And Transfers.
  If no notice of an injunction granted against, or a dissent from, the vacation of lots under section 711.25 of the Revised Code is...
• Section 711.27 - Certificate Of Auditor - Record By Recorder.
  The county auditor shall give to the party at whose instance a vacation of lots or blocks of lots is made under section 711.25...
• Section 711.28 - Lots May Be Revised And Renumbered.
  Where the lots of a municipal corporation are not numbered consecutively upon the original plat thereof, the plats of additions thereto, or subdivisions thereof,...
• Section 711.29 - Mode Of Renumbering.
  The county auditor and the county recorder, in conjunction with an associate appointed as provided by section 711.28 of the Revised Code, shall make...
• Section 711.30 - New Numbers Shall Be Legal Designation.
  When the revision and renumbering of lots has been made, and the schedule thereof recorded as required by sections 711.28 and 711.29 of the...
• Section 711.31 - Payment Of Expenses.
  When the revision and renumbering of lots are done at the request of a municipal corporation, the expenses shall be paid by such municipal...
• Section 711.32 - Numbering Of Additions Or Subdivisions After Revision.
  After the revision of lot numbers in a municipal corporation is made and recorded as provided by sections 711.28 to 711.31, inclusive, of the...
• Section 711.33 - Fees.
  The county auditor, county recorder, and their associate, shall each receive two dollars per day for their services under sections 711.28 to 711.32, inclusive,...
• Section 711.34 - Application To Supply Lost Or Destroyed Records.
  Any ten persons, owning or interested in any lots of land in a municipal corporation, or the agents or attorneys of such persons, where...
• Section 711.35 - Publication Of Notice.
  Upon the filing of the application provided for in section 711.34 of the Revised Code, the county auditor shall give notice of the filing,...
• Section 711.36 - Order By Board To Replat.
  Upon the filing of the application and the giving of notice, as required in sections 711.34 and 711.35 of the Revised Code, the board...
• Section 711.37 - Record Of Plat And Certificate.
  Upon the filing of the plat and certificate by the surveyor as required by section 711.36 of the Revised Code, the board of county...
• Section 711.38 - Record Of Proceedings.
  The county auditor shall keep a complete record of the proceedings under sections 711.34 to 711.37, inclusive, of the Revised Code, in the journal...
• Section 711.39 - Vacating Plat By Legislative Authority.
  Upon the institution of proceedings by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, the board of county commissioners of a county, the department of...
• Section 711.40 - Platting Rules Do Not Apply To Division Of Parcel Of Land By Instrument Of Conveyance.
  Unless required by rules and regulations adopted pursuant to the provisions of sections 711.05, 711.09 and 711.10 of the Revised Code, the provisions of...

Last modified: October 10, 2016