(1) The land use authority may approve the vacation or amendment of a plat by signing an amended plat showing the vacation or amendment if the land use authority finds that:

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Terms Used In Utah Code 10-9a-609

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Land: includes :
         (18)(a) land;
         (18)(b) a tenement;
         (18)(c) a hereditament;
         (18)(d) a water right;
         (18)(e) a possessory right; and
         (18)(f) a claim. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Land use authority: means :
         (31)(a) a person, board, commission, agency, or body, including the local legislative body, designated by the local legislative body to act upon a land use application; or
         (31)(b) if the local legislative body has not designated a person, board, commission, agency, or body, the local legislative body. See Utah Code 10-9a-103
  • Legislative body: means the municipal council. See Utah Code 10-9a-103
  • Municipal: means of or relating to a municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-104
  • Plat: means an instrument subdividing property into lots as depicted on a map or other graphical representation of lands that a licensed professional land surveyor makes and prepares in accordance with Section 10-9a-603 or 57-8-13. See Utah Code 10-9a-103
  • Public street: means a public right-of-way, including a public highway, public avenue, public boulevard, public parkway, public road, public lane, public alley, public viaduct, public subway, public tunnel, public bridge, public byway, other public transportation easement, or other public way. See Utah Code 10-9a-103
  • Subdivision: includes :
              (68)(b)(i) the division or development of land, whether by deed, metes and bounds description, devise and testacy, map, plat, or other recorded instrument, regardless of whether the division includes all or a portion of a parcel or lot; and
              (68)(b)(ii) except as provided in Subsection (68)(c), divisions of land for residential and nonresidential uses, including land used or to be used for commercial, agricultural, and industrial purposes. See Utah Code 10-9a-103
     (1)(a) there is good cause for the vacation or amendment; and
     (1)(b) no public street or municipal utility easement has been vacated or amended.
(2)

     (2)(a) The land use authority shall ensure that the amended plat showing the vacation or amendment is recorded in the office of the county recorder in which the land is located.
     (2)(b) If the amended plat is approved and recorded in accordance with this section, the recorded plat shall vacate, supersede, and replace any contrary provision in a previously recorded plat of the same land.
(3)

     (3)(a) A legislative body may vacate a subdivision or a portion of a subdivision by recording in the county recorder’s office an ordinance describing the subdivision or the portion being vacated.
     (3)(b) The recorded vacating ordinance shall replace a previously recorded plat described in the vacating ordinance.
(4) An amended plat may not be submitted to the county recorder for recording unless it is:

     (4)(a) signed by the land use authority; and
     (4)(b) signed, acknowledged, and dedicated by each owner of record of the portion of the plat that is amended.
(5) A management committee may sign and dedicate an amended plat as provided in Title 57, Chapter 8, Condominium Ownership Act.
(6) A plat may be corrected as provided in Section 57-3-106.

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