Idaho Code
Idaho Code § 50-1313 (2026)
Dedication must be accepted.
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Dedication must be accepted.
No street or alley or highway hereafter dedicated by the owner to the public shall be deemed a public street, highway or alley, or be under the use or control of said city or highway district unless the dedication shall be accepted and confirmed by the city council or by the commissioners of the highway district. An acceptance imposes no obligation or liability upon the city council or highway district until the street, highway or alley is declared to be open for public travel.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1982–1989 · leading case: Worley High. Dist. v. Yacht Club of Coeur D'Alene, Ltd., 775 P.2d 111 (Idaho 1989).
Worley High. Dist. v. Yacht Club of Coeur D'Alene, Ltd., 775 P.2d 111 (Idaho 1989). “§ 50-1312, and the acceptance by action of a public body "accepting" and "confirming" the "dedication," as required by I.C. § 50-1313. However, under the statutory scheme existing in 1904, all that was apparently required was a proper recording of a plat, and no law has been…”
Pugmire v. Johnson, 643 P.2d 832 (Idaho 1982). “In an apparent further attempt to permit the counties to control the number of public highways coming into the county road system, in 1967 the legislature passed I.C. § 50-1313 which, as amended in 1978, reads as follows: “No street or alley or highway hereafter dedicated by the…”
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