[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
Any owner or any proprietor of any tract of land situated within the corporate limits of the Town who subdivides the same shall cause a plat of such subdivision, with reference to known or permanent monuments, to be made and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county. No such plat of subdivision shall be recorded unless and until it shall have been submitted and approved by the Town Council.
Every plat, as referred to in § 141-6, shall be prepared by a surveyor or civil engineer duly licensed by the state, who shall endorse upon each such plat a certificate signed by him setting forth the source of the title of the owner of the land subdivided and the place of record of the last instrument in the chain of title. When the plat is of land acquired from more than one source of title, the outlines of the several tracts shall be indicated upon such plat.
Every plat, as referred to in § 141-7, or the deed of dedication to which such plat is attached, shall contain in addition to the surveyor's or civil engineer's certificate, a statement to the effect that "the above and foregoing subdivision of (here insert correct description of the land subdivided) as appears in this plat is with the free consent and in accordance with the desire of the undersigned owners and trustees, if any," which shall be signed by the owners and trustees, if any, and shall be duly acknowledged before some officer authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, and when thus executed and acknowledged, shall be filed and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county and indexed under names of the owners of the lands signing such statement and under the name of the subdivision.