Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a plat is not required if:
Terms Used In Utah Code 17-27a-605
Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
County utility easement: means an easement that:
(a)
a plat recorded in a county recorder's office described as a county utility easement or otherwise as a utility easement;
(b)
is not a protected utility easement or a public utility easement as defined in Section 54-3-27;
(c)
the county or the county's affiliated governmental entity owns or creates; and
(d)
(i)
either:
(A)
no person uses or occupies; or
(B)
the county or the county's affiliated governmental entity uses and occupies to provide a utility service, including sanitary sewer, culinary water, electrical, storm water, or communications or data lines; or
(ii)
a person uses or occupies with or without an authorized franchise or other agreement with the county. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
Culinary water authority: means the department, agency, or public entity with responsibility to review and approve the feasibility of the culinary water system and sources for the subject property. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
General plan: means a document that a county adopts that sets forth general guidelines for proposed future development of:
(a)
the unincorporated land within the county; or
(b)
for a mountainous planning district, the land within the mountainous planning district. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
a person, board, commission, agency, or body, including the local legislative body, designated by the local legislative body to act upon a land use application; or
(b)
if the local legislative body has not designated a person, board, commission, agency, or body, the local legislative body. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
Land use decision: means an administrative decision of a land use authority or appeal authority regarding:
(a)
a land use permit;
(b)
a land use application; or
(c)
the enforcement of a land use regulation, land use permit, or development agreement. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
Legislative: when used to describe the powers, duties, or functions of a county commission or council, refers to:
(a)
the power and duty to enact ordinances, levy taxes, and establish budgets; and
(b)
those powers, duties, and functions that, under constitutional and statutory provisions and through long usage and accepted practice and custom at the federal and state level, have come to be regarded as belonging to the legislative branch of government. See Utah Code 17-50-101
Lot: means a tract of land, regardless of any label, that is created by and shown on a subdivision plat that has been recorded in the office of the county recorder. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
Mountainous planning district: means an area designated by a county legislative body in accordance with Section 17-27a-901. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
Plat: means an instrument subdividing property into lots as depicted on a map or other graphical representation of lands that a licensed professional land surveyor makes and prepares in accordance with Section 17-27a-603 or 57-8-13. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Public street: means a public right-of-way, including a public highway, public avenue, public boulevard, public parkway, public road, public lane, public alley, public viaduct, public subway, public tunnel, public bridge, public byway, other public transportation easement, or other public way. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
Sanitary sewer authority: means the department, agency, or public entity with responsibility to review and approve the feasibility of sanitary sewer services or onsite wastewater systems. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
Subdivision: includes :
(i)
the division or development of land, whether by deed, metes and bounds description, devise and testacy, map, plat, or other recorded instrument, regardless of whether the division includes all or a portion of a parcel or lot; and
(ii)
except as provided in Subsection (70)(c), divisions of land for residential and nonresidential uses, including land used or to be used for commercial, agricultural, and industrial purposes. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
Unincorporated: means the area outside of the incorporated area of a municipality. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
a county establishes a process to approve an administrative land use decision for the subdivision of unincorporatedland or mountainous planning district land into 10 or fewer lots without a plat; and
(b)
the county provides in writing that:
(i)
the county has provided notice as required by ordinance; and
(ii)
the proposed subdivision:
(A)
is not traversed by the mapped lines of a proposed street as shown in the general plan unless the county has approved the location and dedication of any public street, county utility easement, any other easement, or any other land for public purposes as the county’s ordinance requires;
(B)
has been approved by the culinary water authority and the sanitary sewer authority;
(C)
is located in a zoned area; and
(D)
conforms to all applicable land use ordinances or has properly received a variance from the requirements of an otherwise conflicting and applicable land use ordinance.
(2)
(a)
Subject to Subsection (1), a lot or parcel resulting from a division of agricultural land is exempt from the plat requirements of Section 17-27a-603 if:
(i)
the lot or parcel:
(A)
qualifies as land in agricultural use under Section 59-2-502; and
(B)
is not used and will not be used for any nonagricultural purpose; and
(ii)
the new owner of record completes, signs, and records with the county recorder a notice:
(A)
describing the parcel by legal description; and
(B)
stating that the lot or parcel is created for agricultural purposes as defined in Section 59-2-502 and will remain so until a future zoning change permits other uses.
(b)
If a lot or parcel exempted under Subsection (2)(a) is used for a nonagricultural purpose, the county shall require the lot or parcel to comply with the requirements of Section 17-27a-603 and all applicable land use ordinance requirements.
(3)
(a)
Except as provided in Subsection (4), a document recorded in the county recorder’s office that divides property by a metes and bounds description does not create an approved subdivision allowed by this part unless the land use authority‘s certificate of written approval required by Subsection (1) is attached to the document.
(b)
The absence of the certificate or written approval required by Subsection (1) does not:
(i)
prohibit the county recorder from recording a document; or
(ii)
affect the validity of a recorded document.
(c)
A document which does not meet the requirements of Subsection (1) may be corrected by the recording of an affidavit to which the required certificate or written approval is attached and that complies with Section 57-3-106.
(4)
(a)
As used in this Subsection (4):
(i)
“Divided land” means land that:
(A)
is described as the land to be divided in a notice under Subsection (4)(b)(ii); and
(B)
has been divided by a minor subdivision.
(ii)
“Land to be divided” means land that is proposed to be divided by a minor subdivision.
(iii)
“Minor subdivision” means a division of at least 100 contiguous acres of agricultural land in a county of the third, fourth, fifth, or sixth class to create one new lot that, after the division, is separate from the remainder of the original 100 or more contiguous acres of agricultural land.
(iv)
“Minor subdivision lot” means a lot created by a minor subdivision.
(b)
Notwithstanding Sections 17-27a-603 and 17-27a-604, an owner of at least 100 contiguous acres of agricultural land may make a minor subdivision by submitting for recording in the office of the recorder of the county in which the land to be divided is located:
(i)
a recordable deed containing the legal description of the minor subdivision lot; and
(ii)
a notice:
(A)
indicating that the owner of the land to be divided is making a minor subdivision;
(B)
referring specifically to this section as the authority for making the minor subdivision; and
(C)
containing the legal description of:
(I)
the land to be divided; and
(II)
the minor subdivision lot.
(c)
A minor subdivision lot:
(i)
may not be less than one acre in size;
(ii)
may not be within 1,000 feet of another minor subdivision lot; and
(iii)
is not subject to the subdivision ordinance of the county in which the minor subdivision lot is located.
(d)
Land to be divided by a minor subdivision may not include divided land.
(e)
A county:
(i)
may not deny a building permit to an owner of a minor subdivision lot based on:
(A)
the lot’s status as a minor subdivision lot; or
(B)
the absence of standards described in Subsection (4)(e)(ii); and
(ii)
may, in connection with the issuance of a building permit, subject a minor subdivision lot to reasonable health, safety, and access standards that the county has established and made public.
(5)
(a)
Notwithstanding Sections 17-27a-603 and 17-27a-604, and subject to Subsection (1), the legislative body of a county may enact an ordinance allowing the subdivision of a parcel, without complying with the plat requirements of Section 17-27a-603, if:
(i)
the parcel contains an existing legal single family dwelling unit;
(ii)
the subdivision results in two parcels, one of which is agricultural land;
(iii)
the parcel of agricultural land:
(A)
qualifies as land in agricultural use under Section 59-2-502; and
(B)
is not used, and will not be used, for a nonagricultural purpose;
(iv)
both the parcel with an existing legal single family dwelling unit and the parcel of agricultural land meet the minimum area, width, frontage, and setback requirements of the applicable zoning designation in the applicable land use ordinance; and
(v)
the owner of record completes, signs, and records with the county recorder a notice:
(A)
describing the parcel of agricultural land by legal description; and
(B)
stating that the parcel of agricultural land is created as land in agricultural use, as defined in Section 59-2-502, and will remain as land in agricultural use until a future zoning change permits another use.
(b)
If a parcel of agricultural land divided from another parcel under Subsection (5)(a) is later used for a nonagricultural purpose, the exemption provided in Subsection (5)(a) no longer applies, and the county shall require the owner of the parcel to:
(i)
retroactively comply with the subdivision plat requirements of Section 17-27a-603; and
(ii)
comply with all applicable land use ordinance requirements.
