Columbia Compliance required ordinance (§ 29-1.5)

(a) All site development activities, establishment or changes in uses of land, construction or modification of buildings or structures, development and redevelopment of property, subdivisions of land, and sale of land within the City of Columbia shall comply with all applicable provisions of this chapter.

(b) All applications under this chapter shall comply with all other applicable provisions of city, state and federal laws and regulations, without limitation.

(c) The directors of city department and agencies are hereby authorized to establish design standards and specifications for the construction of public improvements and utilities for development and subdivisions in the city, which shall ensure a high quality construction of such public improvements and utilities such that these public improvements and utilities will serve the public need and be suitable for acceptance and maintenance by the city. The design standards and specifications shall be in substantial conformance with design standards and specifications for construction of similar public improvements and utilities by the city. All established design standards and specifications shall be on file in the office of the director who promulgated them, and all applications under this chapter shall comply with the established standards and specifications.

(d) It shall be unlawful for any person to file or record with the recorder of deeds any instrument of sale, transfer or conveyance of land including a description by metes and bounds when the sale or transfer of that land effects a subdivision of land located within the corporate limits of the city within the meaning of this chapter and before such land has been subdivided in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the plat, if required, has been approved by the council and recorded in the office of the county recorder of deeds. Any deed or instrument of sale filed with the county recorder before full compliance with the requirements of this chapter shall be deemed to be null and void.

(e) The county recorder of deeds shall not file or record a subdivision plat of any land located within the corporate limits of the city unless the plat has endorsed upon it the approval of the council under the hand of the city clerk, and the seal of the city or, in the case of an administrative plat, with the signature of the director. The plat shall show with particularity what part of the land shown thereon is within the corporate limits of the city. The landowner shown on the plat shall cause to be filed with the director a statement by a registered professional land surveyor, set out on the plat and acknowledged by some official authorized by law to take acknowledgments for conveyances of real estate, stating that the land

so shown on the plat as being within the corporate limits of the city is in fact within the corporate limits of the city. Any subdivision plat filed with the county recorder of deeds before full compliance with the requirements of this chapter shall be deemed to be null and void.

(f) It shall be unlawful for any owner, or agent of the owner, of any land located within the city limits knowingly or with intent to defraud, to transfer or sell, that land by reference to or by other use of a plat or any purported subdivision plat of the land before the plat has been approved by the council and recorded in the office of the county recorder of deeds.

(g) It shall be unlawful for any owner, or agent of the owner, of any land located within the city, knowingly or with intent to defraud, to directly or indirectly transfer or sell any land by metes and bounds description or otherwise when the sale, transfer or development of that land would effect a subdivision of land within the meaning of this chapter and before such land has been subdivided in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the plat has been approved by the council and recorded in the office of the county recorder of deeds.