Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3007 – Recording unapproved plans; penalty
(a) The Recorder of Deeds within the County shall not receive for filing any plan of land showing an arrangement of lots or parcels of lands, streets, easements or rights-of-way unless and until said plan shall have been submitted to, and approved by, the Commission and the County Council pursuant to the regulations adopted under this chapter, and until each such approval shall have been endorsed in writing on said plan by the Chairperson or the Executive Director of the Commission and the County Council by the President.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3007
- Commission: means Regional Planning Commission of New Castle County in § 3003 of this title but shall mean the Department of Land Use in all other sections. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3001
- County: means New Castle County. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3001
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Plan: means the map, plat, or other document verbally or graphically illustrating or describing a plan of subdivision or land development. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3001
- Recorder of Deeds: means Recorder of Deeds in and for New Castle County. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3001
- Regulations: means land subdivision regulations. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3001
(b) Any plan received by the Recorder of Deeds for filing or recording without the approval of the Commission and the County Council endorsed thereon, shall be null and void and without legal effect and shall upon application of the Commission or the County Council, to the Superior Court, be expunged from the records of the Recorder of Deeds.
(c) Whoever causes any plan to be filed or recorded contrary to the provisions of this chapter shall be fined not less than $100 and not more than $500. The Superior Court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of offenses under this section.
9 Del. C. 1953, § ?3007; 55 Del. Laws, c. 49; 60 Del. Laws, c. 468, § ?4; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 71 Del. Laws, c. 401, § ?15;