Sec. 26-2. - Approval of subdivision plats by planning board required.

When the planning board shall have adopted rules and regulations pursuant to this chapter, any person who shall thereafter subdivide any land in the town shall make a plat thereof, to which shall be attached the tax collector's certificate that all taxes due on the land described in such plat have been paid for a period of five years preceding the date of filing and that there are no outstanding tax liens thereon, and submit the plat to the planning board, which shall approve, modify and approve or disapprove such plat within 45 days after the submission thereof in final form; otherwise, such plat shall be deemed to be approved and a certificate to that effect shall be issued by the planning board on demand. Such plat, when endorsed as approved by the planning board, shall be recorded in the land records of the town, and shall be assigned a number by the town clerk, beginning with the number 400; and any number or combination of number and letter heretofore assigned by the town clerk to a plat recorded before December 12, 1949, is hereby approved and confirmed as the true and legal number of such plat.

(Code 1972, § 21-2)