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505.09 COUNTY BOARD CONTROLS PLATS OUTSIDE MUNICIPALITIES.
Subdivision 1. Platting; laying of public ways. The county board of any county shall have
power to control and regulate the platting of subdivision of land and the laying out of streets and
other public ways without the boundaries of municipalities.
Subd. 1a. Town board preapproval. The board shall not approve any plat of land lying in a
town which has appointed a planning and zoning commission unless the town board approves the
plat and the laying of streets and other public ways shown on it. The approval shall be endorsed
on the plat and signed by the chair of the town board.
Subd. 2. Street width, parking places. The county board may adopt regulations concerning
the width of streets and establishment of public parking places with which plats must conform
before approval.
History: (8243-1) 1929 c 225 s 1; 1947 c 185 s 1; 1949 c 665 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 9 s 4
Subdivision 1. Platting; laying of public ways. The county board of any county shall have
power to control and regulate the platting of subdivision of land and the laying out of streets and
other public ways without the boundaries of municipalities.
Subd. 1a. Town board preapproval. The board shall not approve any plat of land lying in a
town which has appointed a planning and zoning commission unless the town board approves the
plat and the laying of streets and other public ways shown on it. The approval shall be endorsed
on the plat and signed by the chair of the town board.
Subd. 2. Street width, parking places. The county board may adopt regulations concerning
the width of streets and establishment of public parking places with which plats must conform
before approval.
History: (8243-1) 1929 c 225 s 1; 1947 c 185 s 1; 1949 c 665 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 9 s 4
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