§ 151.004 JURISDICTION.
   (A)   It shall be unlawful for any person to subdivide or lay out into lots any land within the municipality, unless it be by a plat complying with the regulations herein contained, and no plat shall be recorded and no lot or land shall be sold from any such plat until said plat has been approved as herein required.
   (B)   It shall be unlawful for any person to circumvent the provisions of this chapter by lease or by the sale of parcels, by metes and bounds.
   (C)   The design and layout of all subdivisions shall conform with the requirements of §§ 151.035 through 151.043 hereof. The subdivider shall make improvements and shall submit preliminary and final plans, all in accordance with §§ 151.020 through 151.023 of these regulations.
   (D)   The division of a tract into five parcels or less fronting upon an existing street, and where the transfer is to be accomplished by the recording of a deed rather than a plat, requires the approval of the Commission before it can be recorded. Such approval may be accomplished in the manner provided in § 151.023 of these regulations.
   (E)   The division of any parcel of land shown as a unit or as contiguous units on the last preceding tax roll, into two or more parcels, sites or lots, any one of which is less than five acres for the purposes - whether immediate or future - of transfer of ownership, provided, however, that the division or partition of land into parcels of more than five acres not involving any new streets or easements of access, and the sale or exchange of parcels between adjoining lot owners where such sale or exchange does not create additional building sites, shall be exempted.
(Ord. 1155, passed 1-10-1966) Penalty, see § 151.999