CHAPTER 1. General Provisions and Definitions

Chapter 1 added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 1536.

§§ 66410–66424.6 · 33 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. General Provisions §§ 66410–66413.5 · 16 sections

   • § 66410 This division may be cited as the Subdivision Map Act.
   • § 66411 Regulation and control of the design and improvement of subdivisions are vested in the legislative bodies of local agencies. Each local agency shall, by…
   • § 66411.1 (a) Notwithstanding Section 66428, whenever a local ordinance requires improvements for a division of land which is not a subdivision of five or more lots, the…
   • § 66411.5 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, whenever a parcel map or final map is required to effectuate a judicial partition of property…
   • § 66411.7 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division and any local law, a local agency shall ministerially approve, as set forth in this section, a parcel…
   • § 66412 This division shall be inapplicable to any of the following: (a) The financing or leasing of apartments, offices, stores, or similar space within apartment…
   • § 66412.1 This division shall also be inapplicable to: (a) The financing or leasing of any parcel of land, or any portion thereof, in conjunction with the construction…
   • § 66412.2 This division shall not apply to the construction, financing, or leasing of dwelling units pursuant to Section 65852.1 or accessory dwelling units pursuant to…
   • § 66412.3 In carrying out the provisions of this division, each local agency shall consider the effect of ordinances and actions adopted pursuant to this division on the…
   • § 66412.5 When so provided by local ordinance, this division shall be inapplicable to subdivisions of four parcels or less for construction of removable commercial…
   • § 66412.6 (a) For purposes of this division or of a local ordinance enacted pursuant thereto, any parcel created prior to March 4, 1972, shall be conclusively presumed…
   • § 66412.7 A subdivision shall be deemed established for purposes of subdivision (d) of Section 66499.30 and any other provision of this division on the date of…
   • § 66412.8 (a) A project located in Los Angeles County that is approved by a public agency before the effective date of the act adding this section is not in violation of…
   • § 66412.9 This division shall not apply to leases of agriculturally zoned land to nonprofit organizations for the purpose of operating an agricultural labor housing…
   • § 66413 (a) When any area in a subdivision as to which a final map has been finally approved by a board of supervisors and filed for record pursuant to this division…
   • § 66413.5 (a) When any area in a subdivision or proposed subdivision as to which a tentative map meeting the criteria of this section has been approved by a board of…
2. ARTICLE 2. Definitions §§ 66414–66424.6 · 17 sections

   • § 66414 The definitions in this article apply to the provisions of this division only and do not affect any other provisions of law.
   • § 66415 “Advisory agency” means a designated official or an official body charged with the duty of making investigations and reports on the design and improvement of…
   • § 66416 “Appeal board” means a designated board or other official body charged with the duty of hearing and making determinations upon appeals with respect to…
   • § 66416.5 (a) “City engineer” means the person authorized to perform the functions of a city engineer. The land surveying functions of a city engineer may be performed…
   • § 66417 (a) “County surveyor” includes county engineer, if there is no county surveyor. (b) A county engineer registered as a civil engineer after January 1, 1982,…
   • § 66418 “Design” means: (1) street alignments, grades and widths; (2) drainage and sanitary facilities and utilities, including alignments and grades thereof; (3)…
   • § 66418.1 “Development” means the uses to which the land which is the subject of a map shall be put, the buildings to be constructed on it, and all alterations of the…
   • § 66418.2 (a) “Environmental subdivision” means a subdivision of land pursuant to this division for biotic and wildlife purposes that meets all of the conditions…
   • § 66419 (a) “Improvement” refers to any street work and utilities to be installed, or agreed to be installed, by the subdivider on the land to be used for public or…
   • § 66420 “Local agency” means a city, county or city and county.
   • § 66421 “Local ordinance” refers to a local ordinance regulating the design and improvement of subdivisions, enacted by the legislative body of any local agency under…
   • § 66422 “Certificate of exception” means a valid authorization to subdivide land, issued by the County of Los Angeles pursuant to an ordinance thereof, adopted between…
   • § 66423 “Subdivider” means a person, firm, corporation, partnership or association who proposes to divide, divides or causes to be divided real property into a…
   • § 66424 “Subdivision” means the division, by any subdivider, of any unit or units of improved or unimproved land, or any portion thereof, shown on the latest equalized…
   • § 66424.1 Nothing in Section 66424 shall prevent a purchaser of a unit of land created under the provisions of this division or a local ordinance enacted pursuant…
   • § 66424.5 (a) “Tentative map” refers to a map made for the purpose of showing the design and improvement of a proposed subdivision and the existing conditions in and…
   • § 66424.6 (a) When a subdivision, as defined in Section 66424, is of a portion of any unit or units of improved or unimproved land, the subdivider may designate as a…