(A) Registered land surveys. It is the intention of this chapter that all registered land surveys in the city should be presented to the Planning Commission in the form of a preliminary plat in accordance with the standards set forth in this chapter for preliminary plats. Unless approval is obtained from the Planning Commission and the Council in accordance with the standards set forth in this chapter, certificates of occupancy will be withheld for buildings on tracts which have been so subdivided by registered land surveys and the city may refuse to take over tracts as streets or roads or to improve, repair or maintain any such tracts unless approved.
(B) Restrictions on filing and recording conveyances. Pursuant to the provisions of M.S. § 462.358, as it may be amended from time to time, no conveyance of land to which these regulations are applicable shall be filed or recorded, if the land is described in the conveyance by metes and bounds or by reference to an unapproved registered land survey made after April 21, 1961, or to an unapproved plat made after these regulations become effective. The foregoing provisions do not apply to a conveyance if the land described:
(1) Separate parcel. Was a separate parcel of record April 1, 1945, or the date of adoption of subdivision regulations under Laws 1945, Chapter 287, whichever is later; or
(2) Prior agreement. Was the subject of a written agreement to convey entered into prior to such time; or
(3) Large parcels. Was a separate parcel of not less than 2-1/2 acres in area and 150 feet in width on January 1, 1966, or is a single parcel of land of not less than 5 acres and having a width of not less than 300 feet. In any case in which compliance with the foregoing restrictions will create an unnecessary hardship and failure to comply does not interfere with the purpose of these subdivision regulations, the Council may waive such compliance by adoption of a resolution to that effect and the conveyance may then be filed or recorded. Any owner or agent of the owner of land who conveys a lot or parcel in violation of the provision of this subsection shall forfeit and pay to the city a penalty of not less than $100 for each lot or parcel so conveyed. The city may enjoin such conveyance or may recover such penalty by a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(1975 Code, § 12.08)