§ 420.045. Plat To Be Acknowledged and Recorded — Acceptance By City.

Such map or plat shall be acknowledged by the proprietor before some official authorized by law to take acknowledgments of conveyances of real estate, and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County provided however, that if such map or plat be of land situated within the corporate limits of the City, it shall not be placed of record until it shall have been submitted to and approved by the Board of Aldermen of the City, by ordinance, duly passed and approved by the Mayor, and such approval endorsed upon such map or plat under the hand of the Clerk and the Seal of such City, nor until all taxes against the same shall have been paid; and before approving such plat, the Board of Aldermen may, in its discretion, require such changes or alterations thereon as may be found necessary to make such map or plat conform to any zoning or street development plan which may have been adopted or appear desirable, and to the requirements of the duly enacted ordinances of the City, appertaining to the laying out and platting of subdivisions of land within their corporate limits.

R.O. 2012 §420.045