Sec. 4.
The council may cause all public streets, alleys, and public grounds to be surveyed, and may determine and establish their boundaries and cause those surveys and descriptions to be recorded in the office of the city clerk, in a book of street records; and they shall cause surveys and descriptions of all streets, alleys, and public grounds opened, laid out, altered, extended, or accepted and confirmed by the council, to be recorded in like manner; and that record shall be prima facie evidence of the existence of those streets, alleys, or public grounds as in the records described. Every resolution or ordinance discontinuing or vacating any street, alley, or public ground shall also be recorded in the book of street records, and the record shall be prima facie evidence of all the matters set forth in that book, and a true copy of every resolution or ordinance, containing an accurate description of the lands comprising any street, alley, or public ground, laid out, altered, extended, discontinued, or vacated shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds for the county where those lands are situated, and shall thereafter be filed in the office of the secretary of state.
History: 1895, Act 215, Eff. Aug. 30, 1895 ;-- CL 1897, 3176 ;-- CL 1915, 3090 ;-- CL 1929, 2014 ;-- Am. 1935, Act 133, Imd. Eff. June 4, 1935 ;-- CL 1948, 102.4 ;-- Am. 2002, Act 376, Imd. Eff. May 24, 2002