12-514. Petition for change. When the owner or owners of any lot or lots may desire to have the frontage thereof changed, they shall present to the governing body a petition, in writing, signed by such owner or owners, setting forth the description of such lot or lots with reference to the plat of such city and in accordance therewith, and specifically pointing out the change or changes desired, together with the reasons therefor, and shall attach to such petition two plats of each block that will be affected by the change prayed for — the first of which plats shall be an exact transcript of the then existing plat of such block as the same appears of record in the office of the register of deeds of the county; and the second of said plats shall accurately set forth and delineate the number, size and frontage of the lots comprised within such block as the same will be and appear in case the proposed change or changes of frontage shall be made.

History: L. 1879, ch. 79, § 2; March 13; R.S. 1923, § 12-514.