For purposes of this chapter, certain terms and words used herein shall have the following meaning:
(a) "Applicant" means a natural person, firm, association, partnership, corporation, or any combination of any of them, that holds an ownership interest in land, whether recorded or not.
(b) "Divide" or "division" means the partitioning or splitting of a parcel or tract of land by the proprietor thereof or by his or her heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors or assigns, for the purpose of sale or lease for more than one year, or of building development that results in one or more parcels of less than forty acres or the equivalent, and that satisfies the requirements of Sections 108 and 109 of the State Land Division Act. "Divide" or "division" does not include a property transfer between two or more adjacent parcels, if the property taken from one parcel is added to an adjacent parcel; and any resulting parcel shall not be considered a building site unless the parcel conforms to the requirements of the State Land Division Act, or the requirements of other applicable local ordinances. "Divide" or "division" does not include the granting of a right-of-way or easement.
(c) "Exempt split" or "exempt division" means the partitioning or splitting of a parcel or tract of land by the proprietor thereof, or by his or her heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors or assigns, that does not result in one or more parcels of less than forty acres or the equivalent.
(d) "Forty acres or the equivalent" means either forty acres, a quarter-quarter section containing not less than thirty acres, or a government lot containing not less than thirty acres.
(e) "Governing body" means the Charter Township of Clinton Board of Trustees.
(Ord. 322. Passed 4-20-98.)