(a)As used in this article:
(i)Repealed by Laws 2019, ch. 186, § 2.
(ii)"Board" means the board of county commissioners
of the county in which the land sought to be subdivided is
located;
(iii)"Encumbrance" means a mortgage or other lien of
record, securing or evidencing indebtedness and affecting land
to be subdivided including liens for labor and materials. Taxes
and assessments levied by public authority are not an
encumbrance under this article except such taxes and assessments
as may be delinquent;
(iv)"Person" means a natural person, firm,
corporation, partnership, or association, or any combination of
the above, or any other legal or commercial entity;
(v)"Sell" or "sale" includes sale as evidenced by
the delivery of a deed, contract for deed, lease, assignment,
auction or awa
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(a) As used in this article:
(i) Repealed by Laws 2019, ch. 186, § 2.
(ii) "Board" means the board of county commissioners
of the county in which the land sought to be subdivided is
located;
(iii) "Encumbrance" means a mortgage or other lien of
record, securing or evidencing indebtedness and affecting land
to be subdivided including liens for labor and materials. Taxes
and assessments levied by public authority are not an
encumbrance under this article except such taxes and assessments
as may be delinquent;
(iv) "Person" means a natural person, firm,
corporation, partnership, or association, or any combination of
the above, or any other legal or commercial entity;
(v) "Sell" or "sale" includes sale as evidenced by
the delivery of a deed, contract for deed, lease, assignment,
auction or award by lottery concerning a subdivision or any part
of a subdivision. "Sell" or "sale" does not include a contract
to sell which is expressly contingent upon the recording of the
final plat by the county clerk, if all funds paid by the buyer
under the contract are escrowed with a financial institution
located in this state or a title company licensed to do business
in this state until the final plat is recorded and the seller
tenders the deed or the contract to sell is cancelled or the
buyer and seller agree otherwise in writing;
(vi) "Subdivider" means any person who lays out any
subdivision or parts thereof either for the account of the
subdivider or others;
(vii) "Subdivision" means the creation or division of
a lot, tract, parcel or other unit of land for the immediate or
future purpose of sale, building development or redevelopment,
for residential, recreational, industrial, commercial or public
uses. The word "subdivide" or any derivative thereof shall have
reference to the term subdivision, including mobile home courts,
the creation of which constitutes a subdivision of land;
(viii) "Sewage system" means all pipelines, conduits,
pumping stations, force mains and other constructions used for
collecting or conducting wastes to a treatment plant or disposal
system; any plant or other works used for the purpose of
treating, stabilizing or holding wastes; and any system used for
disposing of wastes, either by surface or underground methods,
including any treatment plant, disposal wells and absorption
fields;
(ix) "Water supply system" includes development of
the source and all structures for conveyance of raw water to the
treatment plant or delivery systems; all water treatment plants
including disinfection facilities; water supply systems used for
irrigation and stock water; and all finished water delivery
systems including pipelines, pumping stations and finished water
storage facilities;
(x) "Parcel" means a contiguous piece of property
lawfully created or conveyed of record as a single piece of
property.