2006 Minnesota Statutes

505.1792 STREETS, ROADS, HIGHWAYS AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY.
    Subdivision 1. Informal; for information. In order to give supplemental information to the
public as to the location of streets, county roads, county state-aid highways, town roads, and other
transportation corridors, and the right-of-way thereof, the governing body of any city, town, or
county may file for record in the office of the county recorder and the registrar of titles of said
county such maps or plats showing such information as the governing body shall determine
necessary. The map or plat shall be subscribed by the mayor or chair of the governing body and
the county surveyor, together with a certified copy of the resolution of the governing body setting
forth the necessity for said plat, and shall be entitled to record without compliance with the
provisions of this chapter. Any amendments, alterations, or vacations of such maps or plats so
filed may be entitled to record in like manner.
    Subd. 2. Requirements. Said plats shall be uniform in size measuring 20 by 30 inches from
outer edge to outer edge. A border line shall be placed one-half inch inside the outer edges of
the plat or map on the top, bottom, and right hand side; a border line shall be placed two inches
inside the outer edge on the left hand side. A north arrow and scale of the plat shall be shown
on the plat which scale shall be of such dimension that the plat may be easily interpreted. The
plat may consist of more than one sheet but if more than one sheet, they shall be numbered
progressively and match lines of the right-of-way shall be indicated on each sheet. An official and
one or more identical copies of each plat shall be prepared in black on white mat photographic
card stock with double cloth back mounting or material of equal quality. One exact reproducible
copy of the official plat shall be prepared on linen tracing cloth by a photographic process or on
material of equal quality. The plat on white card stock shall be labeled "Official Plat" and the
reproducible copy shall be labeled "Reproducible Copy of Official Plat". The reproducible copy
shall be compared with the official plat and certified to by the county recorder in the manner in
which certified copies of records are issued in the recorder's office, and the copies shall be bound
in a proper volume for the use of the general public. The official plat may be inspected by any
member of the public but only in the presence of the county recorder or the registrar of titles or a
deputy. Any member of the public may have made a copy of the official plat by paying to the
proper officer the cost of reproduction together with a fee of 50 cents for certification by the
filing officer. Reproductions from the exact transparent reproducible copy shall be available to
any person upon request and the cost of such reproductions shall be paid by the person making
such request. If the abutting property is abstract property the plat shall be filed with the county
recorder; if registered property, with the registrar of titles; if both registered and nonregistered
property, then with both the county recorder and the registrar of titles, and when so filed with the
registrar of titles , the registrar shall enter a reference to said plat as a memorial on all certificates
of title of registered lands which abut the right-of-way shown on the map or plat filed.
In counties having microfilming capabilities, a plat may be prepared on sheets of suitable
mylar or on linen tracing cloth by photographic process or on material of equal quality. The plat
shall be labeled "Official Plat." Notwithstanding any other provisions of this subdivision to the
contrary, no other copies of the plat need to be filed.
    Subd. 3. When street plat prohibited. A city or town may not file a street plat for any street
that is a county road or state highway, or carried designation as a county road or state highway at
the time the plat is offered for filing.
    Subd. 4. Not a title transfer. Maps or plats filed for record under this section shall not
operate of themselves to transfer title to the property described but such maps or plats shall be for
descriptive purposes and shall be notice that the municipality claims an interest in said lands.
History: Ex1967 c 58 s 1; 1969 c 220 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1978 c 499
s 2; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 269 s 49