§ 265.171. Index map and books.

The official index map heretofore approved by the County Board and the index books now on file in the office of the County Clerk (division of land records) shall be continued. Hereafter every map presented to the County Clerk and every other public official of said county and the municipalities within said county for filing or recording shall have indicated thereon the proper block number shown by said official index map, sheet or pages thereof, and it shall be the duty of every engineer, licensed surveyor or draftsman to indicate such block number on every map prepared by him after the filing of such official index map, sheets or pages thereof. Such block number or numbers and the name or names of the town or towns, city or cities, as the case may be, wherein the premises so delineated on such map are located, shall be included as a part of or immediately below the title on every such map presented to the County Clerk (division of land records) for filing or recording. An original of every such map so prepared shall be filed in the office of the County Clerk (Division of Land Records) and all such maps must be drawn with pen and ink upon tracing cloth, Mylar or such other substance, with the exception of paper, as the County Clerk shall approve, and must not be larger than 36 x 48 inches. A copy of such official index map shall be furnished at cost upon request to each county officer and each municipality of said county where maps are filed, and thereafter all such officers of such county and municipalities shall require the proper block number as shown by said official index map to be indicated on all maps that may be filed in their respective offices. Any erroneous or omitted block designations on any map filed after the filing of said official index map may be supplied by the County Clerk. Copies of such official index map, sheets or pages thereof may be made and sold by the County Clerk at a price at least equal to the cost thereof. Each municipal officer having charge of the assessment map for his municipality shall cause to be indicated thereon, as soon as convenient, the block numbers as shown on said official index map. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as creating a liability on the county or any municipality thereof or any official of such county or municipality by reason of a failure or neglect to indicate on any filed map the proper block number as shown on said official index map.

(§ 308 of the Laws of 1948, Ch. 852; amended by the Laws of 1949, Ch. 145; renumbered as § 310-b by L.L. No. 12-1967; amended by L.L. No. 13-1980)