Minnesota Session Laws - 1990, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1990 

                        CHAPTER 396-H.F.No. 1785 
           An act relating to real property; providing for plat 
          monuments; imposing a penalty; amending Minnesota 
          Statutes 1988, section 505.02, subdivision 1; 
          proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, 
          chapter 505. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 505.02, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
    Subdivision 1.  The land shall be surveyed and a plat made 
setting forth and naming all thoroughfares, showing all public 
grounds, and giving the dimensions of all lots, thoroughfares 
and public grounds.  All in-lots shall be numbered by beginning 
the numbering with number one and numbering each lot 
progressively, through the block in which they are situated, all 
blocks shall be numbered progressively, by beginning the 
numbering with the number one and numbering each block 
progressively through each plat.  Consecutive lot or block 
numbering shall not be continued from one plat into another.  
All out-lots shall be designated by alphabetical order beginning 
with out-lot "A" in each plat.  Durable iron monuments shall be 
set at all angle and curve points on the outside boundary lines 
of the plat and also at all block and lot corners and at all 
intermediate points on the block and lot lines indicating 
changes of direction in the lines and witness corners.  The plat 
shall indicate that all monuments have been set.  There shall be 
shown on the plat all survey and mathematical information and 
data necessary to locate all monuments and to locate and retrace 
any and all interior and exterior boundary lines appearing 
thereon.  The outside boundary lines of the plat shall be 
correctly designated on the plat and shall show bearings on all 
straight lines, or angles at all angle points, and central angle 
and radii and arc length for all curves.  All distances shall be 
shown between all monuments as measured to the nearest hundredth 
of a foot.  All lot distances shall be shown on the plat to the 
nearest hundredth of a foot and all curved lines within the plat 
shall show central angles, radii and arc distances.  If a curved 
line constitutes the line of more than one lot in any block of a 
plat, the central angle for that part of each lot on the curved 
line shall be shown.  The width of all thoroughfares shall be 
shown on the plat.  Ditto marks shall not be used on the plat 
for any purpose.  In any instance where a river, stream, creek, 
lake or pond constitutes a boundary line within or of the plat, 
a survey line shall be shown with bearings or angles and 
distances between all angle points and their relation to a water 
line, and all distances measured on the survey line between lot 
lines shall be shown, and the survey line shall be shown as a 
dashed line.  The outside boundary lines of the plat shall close 
by latitude and departure with an error not to exceed one foot 
in 7,500 feet.  All rivers, streams, creeks, lakes, ponds, 
swamps, and all public highways and thoroughfares laid out, 
opened, or traveled (existing before the platting) shall be 
correctly located and plainly shown and designated on the plat.  
The name and adjacent boundary lines of any adjoining platted 
lands shall be dotted on the plat.  
    Sec. 2.  [505.33] [VIOLATIONS; PENALTY.] 
    Any person who intentionally removes, destroys, or defaces 
a monument lawfully erected is guilty of a misdemeanor. 
    Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 2 is effective August 1, 1990, for violations 
occurring on or after that date. 
    Presented to the governor April 2, 1990 
    Signed by the governor April 4, 1990, 9:54 p.m.