[Ord. No. 6924 §§1—3(9-101), 2-22-1999]
A. 
The rules and regulations set out in this Chapter are intended to serve the following purposes:
1. 
To assist orderly, efficient and integrated development within the territorial jurisdiction of the City.
2. 
To promote the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the residents of the City and its environs.
3. 
To ensure conformance of subdivision plans with the public improvement plans of the City and its environs.
4. 
To assure equitable handling of all subdivision plans by providing uniform procedures and standards for observance both by subdivider and the Planning and Zoning Commission.
[Ord. No. 6924 §§1—3(9-102), 2-22-1999]
The rules and regulations set out in this Chapter pertain to development of subdivisions within the City and may impose greater or different restrictions than are currently imposed in the corresponding zoning regulations.
[Ord. No. 6924 §§1—3(9-103), 2-22-1999]
Any subdivider of land within the territorial jurisdiction shall submit to the Planning and Zoning Commission plats of the subdivision and plans for indicated improvements according to the regulations of this Title. In considering the approval of a plat, the Planning and Zoning Commission shall observe the requirements and procedures set forth herein. In the case of a plat constituting a replat of land into two (2) or more lots, all of which will be served by an existing street or streets, the Planning and Zoning Commission shall have the power to vary the requirements so that substantial justice maybe done and the public interest served.
[Ord. No. 6924 §§1—3(9-104), 2-22-1999]
The provisions of this Chapter shall be administered by the Planning and Zoning Commission. The Commission may from time to time suggest instructions and operating procedures to be followed in the administration of these regulations to the end that the public may be informed and that approval of plats be expedited.
[Ord. No. 6924 §§1—3(9-105), 2-22-1999; Ord. No. 7170 §1(9-105), 6-27-2005]
A. 
Each subdivider shall pay fees to the City Clerk in accord with the following schedule:
1. 
The fee for each application for approval of a preliminary plat is three hundred thirty-six dollars ($336.00).
2. 
The fee for each additional review of a preliminary plat is one hundred six dollars ($106.00).
3. 
The fee for each review of the infrastructure of each plat is two hundred seventy dollars ($270.00).
4. 
The fee for each application for approval of a final plat is one hundred fifty-five dollars ($155.00).
B. 
No fee shall be charged for land to be dedicated to the public.
C. 
The Planning and Zoning Commission shall calculate the fee for each application.
D. 
Fees shall be payable in advance of processing the plat.
[Ord. No. 6924 §§1—3(9-106), 2-22-1999]
No subdivider proposing to make or having made a subdivision within the territorial jurisdiction shall proceed with any construction work on the proposed subdivision, including grading, before obtaining from the Planning and Zoning Commission a certificate of final preliminary approval.
[Ord. No. 6924 §§1—3(9-107), 2-22-1999]
No owner or agent of the owner of any land located within the planning jurisdiction of the City, knowingly or with intent to defraud, may transfer, sell, agree to sell or negotiate to sell that land by reference to or by other use of a plat of any purported subdivision of the land before the plat has been approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission and/or City Council and recorded in the office of the Jasper County Recorder. Any person violating the provisions of this Section shall forfeit and pay to the municipality a penalty not to exceed three hundred dollars ($300.00) for each lot transferred or sold or agreed to be or negotiated to be sold; and the description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from this penalty. The City may enjoin or vacate the transfer or sale or agreement by legal action and may recover the penalty in such action.