This chapter does not apply to layout plats of highways or other transportation facilities prepared by or for the agency of transportation, other than plats of individual parcels, before that agency issues a right-of-way clearance certificate for a transportation project. When the agency of transportation issues a right-of-way clearance certificate for a transportation project, it also shall file with the appropriate municipal clerk one set of plans that conforms to the requirements of this chapter, with instructions to the clerk to dispose of all previously filed plats for that particular project. (Added 1969, No. 235 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; amended 1993, No. 61, § 29, eff. June 3, 1993; 1997, No. 150 (Adj. Sess.), § 18.)