Recorded Plats

A plat map shows how land is subdivided into lots and tracts and often provides dedications of rights-of-way and easements. It is drawn to scale and typically shows the land's size, boundary locations, nearby streets, flood zones, and any easements or rights of way. They are used in real estate transactions as part of the title search. Title records are searched to make sure the seller has the right to convey the property described and the buyer is buying exactly what they think they are buying. Plat map is a document drawn to scale by a licensed Engineer or Surveyor, showing the divisions of a piece of land. It gives the legal descriptions of real property by lot, street, and block number. It subdivides the land into lots showing the location and boundaries of individual parcels with the streets, alleys, easements, and privately owned tracts. Usually a plat map is drawn after the property has been described by some other means, such as a government survey. Once a plat map is recorded, property descriptions are defined by referring to appropriate plat map. Arizona Revised Statute §9-463.01 (R), "Every municipality is responsible for the recordation of all final plats approved by the legislative body and shall receive from the subdivider and transmit to the county recorder the recordation fee established by the county recorder."