(A) The regulations established by this section are for the purpose of providing for the reasonable regulation of conveyance by metes and bounds descriptions, thereby promoting greater efficiency in the county offices having responsibilities relating to the conveyance of land and to promote the purpose set forth in M.S. § 272.19, as it may be amended from time to time.
(B) No conveyance of land to which the 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 6-4-1971, or to an unapproved plan made after such regulations have become effective. The foregoing provision does not apply to a conveyance if the land described:
(1) Was a separate parcel of record on the date of adoption of subdivision regulations under M.S. §§ 394.21 to 394.37, as they may be amended from time to time;
(2) Was the subject of a written agreement to convey entered into prior to such time; or
(3) Was a separate parcel of not less than five acres and having a width of not less than 300 feet; and
(4) Has been zoned for a residential use and approved by the County Board and a conditional use permit approved by the Planning Commission.
(C) Building permits shall be withheld for buildings on tracts which have been subdivided and conveyed by the metes and bounds method, except as set out in division (B) above.
(D) The county and townships may refuse to take over tracts as streets or roads or to improve, repair or maintain any such tracts.
(Ord. passed 12-11-1979)