For the purposes of these regulations, the terms and words defined in the Subdivision Control Law shall have the meaning given herein, unless a contrary intention clearly appears in these definitions. The following other terms and words are defined as follows:
APPLICANT
Person applying for approval of a plan hereunder, including owner, agent or assigns of the owner.
ARTERIAL
A major street in the city's street system that serves as an avenue for the circulation of traffic onto, out, or around the city and carries high volumes of traffic.
BENCH MARK
Mark made in durable object of known position and elevation as a reference point.
BOARD
The Planning Board of Barre.
CERTIFICATION/ENDORSEMENT BY THE PLANNING BOARD
As applied to an instrument required or authorized by the Subdivision Control Law to be recorded, shall mean certification/endorsement signed by a majority of the members of the Board, or by any other person authorized by it to certify/endorse, and named by a written statement to the register of deeds and recorder of the Land Court, signed by a majority of the Board. (MGL c. 41, § 81-L)
EASEMENT
A right in land acquired by public authority or other person to use or control property for a utility or other purpose.
ENGINEER or SURVEYOR
Person registered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to perform professional civil engineering or land surveying services.
LOT
Area of land in one ownership with definite boundaries used, or available for use, as the site of one or more buildings. Areas endorsed by the Board upon a plan as "not available for building purposes" shall not be considered lots.
MINOR ROAD
A street whose sole function is to provide access to abutting properties. It serves or is designed to serve not more than nine dwelling units and is expected or does handle up to 90 trips per day.
PRIMARY COLLECTOR
A street whose principal function is to carry traffic between minor and secondary collector streets and arterial streets but that may also provide direct access to abutting properties. It serves or is designed to serve, directly or indirectly, more than 100 dwelling units and is designed to be used or is used to carry more than 1,000 trips per day.
RECORDED
Recording in the Registry of Deeds for Worcester County and, where registered land is affected, filing with the recorder of the Land Court. (MGL c. 41, § 81-L)
SECONDARY COLLECTOR
A street whose principal function is to provide access to abutting properties but is also designed to be used to connect minor roads with primary collector or arterial streets. Including residences indirectly served through connecting streets, it serves or is designed to serve at least 10 but not more than 100 dwelling units and is expected to or does handle between 100 and 1,000 trips per day.
SIDEWALK
A way within the right-of-way of a street normally parallel to the street designed primarily for pedestrian use.
SUBDIVISION
Division of a tract of land into two or more lots, including resubdivision, provided that such division shall not be deemed to constitute a subdivision under the Subdivision Control Law (MGL c. 41, §§ 81-K and 81-GG) if at the time it is made, every lot within the tract has frontage on a public way, a way which the Town Clerk certifies as maintained and used as a public way, a way shown on a plan theretofore approved and endorsed in accordance with the Subdivision Control Law, or a way in existence as of March 1, 1963, meeting the standards of the Board as set out in § III-A, 3. (ref) Such frontage shall be of at least such distance as is then required by the Zoning Bylaw[1] of the Town of Barre for erection of a building on such lot. Conveyances or other instruments adding to, taking away from, or changing the size and shape of lots in such a manner as not to leave any lot so affected without the frontage above set forth, or the division of a tract of land on which two or more buildings were standing when the Subdivision Control Law went into effect in the city or town in which the land lies into separate lots on each of which one of such buildings remains standing, shall not constitute a subdivision.
UTILITIES
Private or municipal services to be furnished within the subdivision, including telephone, cable TV, electric light and power, gaslines, sanitary sewers, water drains, water pipes and appurtenances.
WAY, PUBLIC
Any road which has been accepted as a public way pursuant to MGL c.82, or any way established by court decree to be a public way by dedication, prescription or otherwise.[2]
WAY IN EXISTENCE WHEN SUBDIVISION CONTROL LAW BECAME EFFECTIVE IN THE TOWN
For purposes of determining whether a proposed division of lots is a subdivision, a way in existence as of March 1, 1963, shall not be deemed adequate by the Board except if it meets standards in § 111-A, 3.(ref)
WAY MAINTAINED AND USED AS A PUBLIC WAY
For purposes of determining whether a proposed division of lots is a subdivision, a way shall be certified as used and maintained as a public way only if it meets the standards of § III-A, 3.(ref)
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 140, Zoning.
[2]
Editor's Note: See Ch. A602, Road Lists.
A. 
Basic requirement. No person shall make a subdivision within the meaning of the Subdivision Control Law of any land within the town, or proceed with the improvements or sale of lots in a subdivision, or the construction of ways, or the installation of municipal services therein, unless and until a plan has been endorsed "Planning Board Approval Not Required," or a definitive plan of such subdivision has been submitted to and approved by the Board.
B. 
Effect of prior recording. The recording of a plan of subdivision within the town in the Registry of Deeds of Worcester County prior to the effective date of the Subdivision Control Law in the Town of Barre shall not exempt the land within such subdivision from the application and operation of these rules and regulations except as specifically exempt by MGL c. 41, § 81-FF.
C. 
Waivers. The Board may waive strict compliance with any of these rules and regulations if it deems it in the public interest, and if written record is kept of such waivers, and the reasons for them.
[Added 2-26-1979 STM, Art. 6]
Land on a definitive plan, or preliminary plan followed within seven months by a definitive plan, shall be governed by the zoning in effect at the time of first submission, for five years from approval. The use of land on a plan "approval not required" shall be governed by zoning in effect at the time of filing for three years.