GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	1
HOUSE BILL 846
     

 
Short Title:	Harnett Co. Subdivision Definition.	()	
Sponsors:	Representative Davis.	
Referred to:	Local Government II.	
March 29, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT relating to the definition of subdivision in harnett county and the municipalities within the county.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 153A‑335, as it applies to Harnett County pursuant to S.L. 1997‑246, 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 10 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;
(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; and
(5)	A one-time division of land by any method of transfer from a grantor to an individual grantee who is a member of the grantor's immediate family, solely for the residential use of the grantee, where the entire area of the land divided is not more than an acre as shown on a recorded map prepared by a registered land surveyor currently licensed by the North Carolina State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "immediate family" shall include direct lineal descendants (children and grandchildren) and direct lineal ascendants (father, mother, grandfather, and grandmother) only."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 160A‑376, as it applies to Harnett County municipalities pursuant to S.L. 1997‑246, reads as rewritten:
"§ 160A‑376. Definition.
For the purpose 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 shall include all divisions of land involving the dedication of a new street or a change in existing streets; but the following shall not be included within this definition nor be subject to the regulations authorized by 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 10 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;
(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; and
(5)	A one-time division of land by any method of transfer from a grantor to an individual grantee who is a member of the grantor's immediate family, solely for the residential use of the grantee, where the entire area of the land divided is not more than an acre as shown on a recorded map prepared by a registered land surveyor currently licensed by the North Carolina State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "immediate family" shall include direct lineal descendants (children and grandchildren) and direct lineal ascendants (father, mother, grandfather, and grandmother) only."
SECTION 3.  Section 1 of this act applies to Harnett County only.  Section 2 of this act applies to the municipalities in Harnett County only.
SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.