A.
This chapter is enacted in accordance with the provisions
of Article 16 of the Town Law and in order to:
B.
These regulations governing the subdivision of land
in the Town of Cortlandt are hereby adopted by the Planning Board
by authority delegated by ordinance of the Town Council July 27, 1954,
as amended.*
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*Editor's Note: The Town Board granted
the following powers to the Planning Board by resolution:
On 7-27-1954, the Town Board resolved
that the Town Planning Board of the Town of Cortlandt be and it hereby
is authorized and empowered, pursuant to the provisions of §§ 276
and 281 of the Town Law, to approve plats showing such new streets
or highways within that part of the Town outside of the limits of
any incorporated city or village, and be it further resolved that
the Town Clerk be and he hereby is instructed to immediately file
with his certificate a certified copy of this resolution with the
County Clerk of the County of Westchester.
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On 1-17-1956, the Town Board resolved
that whereas, under § 277 of the Town Law, entitled "Approval
of Plats: Additional Requisite," the Planning Board, in its discretion,
may provide, before the approval of a plat, that all streets or other
public places shown on such plats shall be suitably graded and paved
and that street signs, sidewalks, streetlighting standards, curbs,
gutters, street trees, water mains, sanitary sewers and storm drains
or combined sewers shall be installed, all in accordance with the
standards, specifications and procedures of the appropriate Town departments,
or, alternatively, that a performance bond sufficient to cover the
full cost of the same, as estimated by the Planning Board, be furnished
to the Town by the owner. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the
Planning Board of the Town of Cortlandt is hereby granted all powers
under § 277 of the Town Law in relation to additional requisite
in approving plats.
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On 4-7-1959, the Town Board resolved that
the Planning Board of the Town of Cortlandt be and it hereby is given
additional powers and controls as set forth under § 281
of the Town Law; said authorization being, in particular, with regard
to the planned commercial and industrial development of the unincorporated
areas of the Town of Cortlandt.
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[Amended 5-6-1986 by Res. No. 137-86]
After the effective date of these regulations,
no person, owner or agent shall convey, contract to convey or represent
himself to be in a position to convey any lot, plot or parcel of land
in the Town of Cortlandt resulting from any subdivision without the
prior approval of the Planning Board pursuant to these regulations.
The description of a lot, plot or parcel of land by metes and bounds
in the instruments of transfer or other documents used in the process
of selling or transferring shall not exempt the conveyance from the
above prohibition.
The provisions of these regulations shall not
apply to any map or subdivision plat approved by the Planning Board
and filed with the County Clerk prior to the effective date of these
regulations under § 276, Subdivision 5, of the local Zoning
and Planning Law of the State of New York.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See Article 16 of the Town
Law.
