NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 666

HOUSE BILL 468

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 153-266.6 RELATING TO COUNTY SUBDIVISIONS AND SALES IN GUILFORD COUNTY PRIOR TO APPROVAL BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND RECORDATION OF PLAT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Sale of land in unapproved subdivisions a misdemeanor; injunctions. – If the board of county commissioners of Guilford County adopts an ordinance regulating the subdivision of land as authorized herein, any person who, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within the jurisdiction granted to the commissioners by G.S. 153-266.1, thereafter subdivides his land in violation of the ordinance or transfers or sells such land by reference to, exhibition of, or any other use of a plat showing a subdivision of the land before the plat has been properly approved under such ordinance and recorded in the office of the register of deeds, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring land shall not exempt the transaction from this penalty.  The county, through its county attorney or other official designated by the board of county commissioners, may enjoin such illegal transfer or sale by action for injunction."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1971.