GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

HOUSE BILL 1497
RATIFIED BILL

AN ACT AMENDING THE STATUTORY DEFINITION OF "SUBDIVISION" FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUBDIVISION REGULATION IN RICHMOND COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 153A-335 reads as rewritten:
"§ 153A-335. "Subdivision"defined.
For purposes of this Part, "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:
(1)	The combination or recombination 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;
(2)	The division of land into parcels greater than five acres if no street right-of-way dedication is involved;
(3)	The public acquisition by purchase of strips of land for widening or opening streets; and
(4)	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 if the resultant lots are equal to or exceed the standards of the county as shown by its subdivision regulations."
Section 2.  This act applies to Richmond County only.
Section 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19th day of June, 2000.

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	Dennis A. Wicker
	President of the Senate

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	James B. Black
				eaker of the House of Representatives