For the purpose of these Rules and Regulations, the following words and terms used herein are hereby defined as follows:
ABUTTER
An owner or owners of property, which has:
A. 
One or more boundaries, or parts thereof, in common with the property being subdivided; or
B. 
Has frontage in whole or in part directly opposite any portion of the property being subdivided; or
C. 
Is deemed by the Planning Board to be affected by the proposed subdivision of land.
APPLICANT
A person who applies for approval of a plan of a subdivision or who applies for a determination that approval is not required. The applicant (or applicants) shall be the owner (or owners) or the duly authorized agent or representative of the owner(s), or his or their assigns of all land included in the subject request for action before the Planning Board. If a plan for a subdivision of land is to be submitted by one representing to be the agent or assign of an owner, a notarized certificate shall be submitted, signed by the owner, authorizing the person filing the plan to act as agent or assign and the agent or assign shall also file sufficient documentation to explain the nature and extent of his own actual or potential interest in the land.
BOARD
The Planning Board of the Town of Hull.
DEFINITIVE PLAN
The plan of a subdivision as submitted (with appropriate application) to the Board for approval, in its entirety, to be recorded in the Registry of Deeds or filed with the Recorder of the Land Court when approved by the Board.
DEPARTMENTS SPECIFICATIONS
The Standard Specifications for Highways and Bridges of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, dated 1973, including all revisions thereto.
DEPARTMENT'S STANDARDS
The Construction Standards of 1966, of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, and all revisions thereto.
DEVELOPER
Same as "Applicant".
ENGINEER
A Registered Professional Engineer or other person designated by the Board to act as its inspector.
FRONTAGE
The distance between adjacent intersections of lot and street sidelines measured in a continuous line along the street sideline over which access to the lot must be attainable, and tangent to which and within all other lot lines a circle, the diameter of which is not less than 80% of the minimum lot size frontages set forth in Sections 51-1, 51-11, 51-111, and Section 52 of this By-Law, may be located.
GENERAL LAWS
The General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with all additions thereto and amendments thereof. (Abbreviated G.L.)
LOT
An area of land in one ownership, with definite boundaries, used, or available for use, as the site of one or more buildings or for any other definite purpose.
MUNICIPAL SERVICES
Sewers, surface and subsurface water drains, water pipes, fire hydrants, gas pipes, oil pipes, steam lines, electric lines or ducts, telephone lines or ducts, fire alarm cables and boxes, streetlights, and their respective appurtenances, or other similar facilities.
OWNER
The person holding the ultimate fee simple title to a tract, parcel, or lot of land, as shown by the record in the Plymouth Registry of Deeds or Plymouth Registry of Probate. A certified copy of such record shall accompany any application.
PERSON
An individual, two or more individuals, partnership, corporation, association, society, or any entity recognized by the General Laws, having common or undivided interests in a tract of land. Person shall also include, to the extent allowed by the General Laws, agents, administrators, executors, heirs, devisees, successors, and assigns.
PRELIMINARY PLAN
The plan of a subdivision as may be submitted for discussion and consideration by the Board prior to the preparation of the definitive plan.
PRINT
A reproduction of an original drawing — dark line on white background.
ROADWAY
A portion of a way which is designed and prepared for vehicular traffic.
SITE
A portion of a lot, tract or parcel of land provided for the location of a building, with the necessary or convenient amount of land adjacent to such building used or to be used in connection with such building.
STREET
A public way, or a way having, in the opinion of the Planning Board, sufficient width, suitable grades and adequate construction to provide for the proposed use of the land abutting thereon or served thereby, (major, secondary, minor and minor dead-end streets are defined in § 530-4.2 of these regulations).
SUBDIVISION
The division of a tract of land into two or more lots and as further defined in Section 81-L, Chapter 41, G.L.
SUBDIVISION CONTROL LAW
Sections 81K to 81GG, inclusive of Chapter 41 of the General Laws, and any acts in amendment thereof.
WAY
A way shall be the full strip of land designated as a way or street, as distinguished from the roadway.
No plan shall be deemed to have been submitted to the Board until said plan, together with all application forms, fees and other items as required and executed as specified herein, has been delivered in person to the Board at a meeting thereof, or by registered mail through the Office of the Town Clerk, by the owner of the land involved or his authorized agent. (For matters not covered by these Rules and Regulations, reference is made to Sections 81-K to § 81-GG, inclusive, Chapter 41, G.L.)
All Definitive Plans submitted to the Board shall include a certification as to their conformance in every respect with these Rules and Regulations and as to the validity of their content executed by a person registered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a Land Surveyor or Professional Engineer, or both, as required by the Board. If the Plan fails to comply in any respect with these Rules and Regulations, then the Definitive Plans must be accompanied by a list, certified by said Land Surveyor or Engineer, setting forth each and every Regulation with which the Plan does not comply, the location and nature of the noncompliance, and the reason therefore. The Board suggests that the owner be represented at any meeting with the Board by the person responsible for the design of the subdivision and the preparation of the plans.
Strict compliance with the requirements of these Rules and Regulations may be waived when, in the judgment of the Board, such action is in the interest, and not inconsistent with the Subdivision Control Law. The application for approval of a Definitive Plan must be accompanied by a written request for waiver of strict compliance with these rules, identifying with particularity the regulation sought to be waived, the nature and location of the waiver sought, and a demonstration certified by the applicant's Surveyor or Engineer that such waiver is consistent with each of the purposes set forth in § 530-1.2 of these Rules and Regulations.
If any Section, paragraph, sentence, clause or provision of these Regulations shall be adjudged not valid, the adjudication shall apply only to the material so adjudged and the remainder of these Regulations shall be deemed valid and effective.
These Regulations or any portion thereof may be amended, supplemented or repealed from time to time by the Board after a public hearing on its own motion or by petition of the Board of Selectmen, Board of Appeals, an individual owning land to be affected by the change or adoption, by a regional planning agency, or by petition of 100 registered voters. No change to these regulations which has been unfavorably acted upon by the Planning Board shall be considered by the Planning Board within two years after the date of such unfavorable action without a two-thirds vote of the Planning Board to reopen the matter.
When not otherwise specified in these Rules and Regulations, all applicable State Standards shall apply.