GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 932

HOUSE BILL 2350

 

AN ACT TO DEFINE "SUBDIVISION" FOR PURPOSES OF SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS IN PERSON COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  For the purposes of Part 2 of Article 18 of Chapter 153A of the General Statutes, "subdivision" means all divisions of a tract or parcel of land into two or more lots, building sites, or other divisions for the purpose of sale or building development (whether immediate or future) and includes all division of land involving the dedication of a new street or a change in existing streets; however, the following is not included within this definition and is not subject to any regulations enacted pursuant to this Part.

(a)       The combination or recombinations of portions of previously subdivided and recorded lots if the total number of lots is not increased and the resultant lots are equal to or exceed the standards of the county as shown in its subdivision regulations.

(b)       The division of land into parcels greater than 10 acres if no street right-of-way dedication is involved.

(c)       The public acquisition by purchase of strips of land for widening or opening streets.

(d)       The division of a tract in single ownership the entire area of which is no greater than two acres into not more than three lots, if no street right-of-way dedication is involved and the resultant lots are equal to or exceed the standards of the county as shown in its subdivision regulations.

(e)       The division of land for use as gravesites.

(f)        A division of land which has been created by a judicial partition and/or sale.

(g)       All re-surveys of an existing lot.

(h)       Any plat presented for recordation on which a lot is shown and pledged as collateral for loan proceeds and where the property depicted by the plat is a portion of a larger tract of property owned by the same entity.

(i)        A combination of lands which adds land to previous subdivided and recorded lots which are contiguous to the addition.

Sec. 2  G.S. 153A-335 is repealed.

Sec. 3.  This act applies to Person County only.

Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of June, 1988.