

STATE LAND LAWS 

 PLATTING UPLANDS. SECS. 296-297 



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SUBDIVISION AND PLATTING OF LANDS. 



SEC. 296. Lands May Be Surveyed to Find Area. 



297. Certain Lands to be Platted; Procedure. 



298. Vacation and Amendment of Plats. 



299. Same; Re-Plat. 



300. Order of Vacation. 



301. Vacation of Streets; Petition. 



302. Duplicate Plats; Filing. 



303. Sale to Abutting Owners. 



Cross-Reference: Platting Tide and Shore Lands: sec. 306 et 

 seq., infra. 



SEC. 296. SURVEYS TO DETERMINE AREA. 



The Board of State Land Commissioners or the Commissioner 

 of Public Lands may cause any of the public lands of the state 

 to be surveyed for the purpose of ascertaining and determining 

 the area subject to sale or lease. (Laws '09, p. 758, sec. ; 

 sec. 6661 Rem.-Bal.; 477 sec. 41 Pierce.) 



SEC. 297. LANDS TO BE PLATTED PROCEDURE. 



All lands within the limits of any incorporated city or town, 

 or within two miles of the boundaries of such incorporated city 

 or town, where the valuation of such lands shall be found by 

 appraisement to exceed one hundred dollars per acre, or such 

 other lands as the Board of State Land Commissioners may 

 determine, shall, before the same be sold, be platted into lots 

 and blocks or tracts, and not more than one block or tract 

 shall be offered for sale in one parcel. The Board of State Land 

 Commissioners may designate or describe any such plat by 

 name or numeral or as an addition to any such city or town and, 

 upon the filing of such plats, it shall be sufficient to describe the 

 lands, or any portion thereof, embraced in such plat according 

 to the designation prescribed by the Board of State Land Com- 

 missioners. Such plats shall be made in duplicate and, when 

 properly authenticated in accordance with the directions of the 

 Board of State Land Commissioners, one copy thereof shall be 



