The owner of a tract of land, located within the city limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction of the city, who proposes a subdivision of his or her tract, or who divides the tract into two or more parts to lay out a building or other lots, or to lay out streets, alleys, parks or other parts of the tract intended to be dedicated to public use or for the use of purchasers or owners of lots fronting on or adjacent to the streets, alleys, parks or other parts, must have a plat of the subdivision prepared and must adhere to and comply with the terms, provisions and conditions of this chapter. A division of a tract under this section includes a division regardless of the method used to describe the property, whether it is by a metes and bounds or other description, and regardless of the method or type of document utilized to effect the division, whether by a deed of conveyance, contract for deed, contract of sale or other executory contract to convey. A division of land into parts greater than five acres does not require a plat where each part has public road access and no public improvement is being dedicated, per Tex. Local Government Code § 212.004.
(2012 Code, § 77-21)