KRS 100.277: Commission approval required for subdivisions.

(1) All subdivision of land shall receive commission approval.

(2) No person or his agent shall subdivide any land before securing the approval of the

planning commission of a plat designating the areas to be subdivided, and no plat of

a subdivision of land wi thin the planning unit jurisdiction shall be recorded by the

county clerk until the plat has been approved by the commission and the approval

entered thereon in writing by the chairman, secretary, or other duly authorized

officer of the commission.

(3) No person owning land composing a subdivision, or his agent, shall transfer or sell

any lot or parcel of land located within a subdivision by reference to, or by

exhibition, or by any other use of a plat of such subdivision, before such plat has

received fina l approval of the planning commission and has been recorded. Any

such instrument of transfer or sale shall be void and shall not be subject to be

recorded unless the subdivision plat subsequently receives final approval of the

planning commission, but all rights of such purchaser to damages are hereby

preserved. The description of such lot or parcel by metes and bounds in any

instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or

transferring same shall not exempt the person attempting t o transfer from penalties

provided or deprive the purchaser of any rights or remedies he may otherwise have.

Provided, however, any person, or his agent, may agree to sell any lot or parcel of

land located within a subdivision by reference to an unapproved or unrecorded plat

or by reference to a metes and bounds description of such lot and any such

executory contract of sale or option to purchase may be recorded and shall be valid

and enforceable so long as the subdivision of land contemplated therein is la wful

and the subdivision plat subsequently receives final approval of the planning

commission.

(4) Any street or other public ground which has been dedicated shall be accepted for

maintenance by the legislative body after it has received final plat approva l by the

planning commission. Any street that has been built in accordance with specific

standards set forth in subdivision regulations or by ordinance shall be, by operation

of law, automatically accepted for maintenance by a legislative body forty -five (45)

days after inspection and final approval.

(5) Any instrument of transfer, sale or contract that would otherwise have been void

under this section and under any of its subsections previously, is deemed not to have

been void, but merely not subject to be recorded unless the subdivision plat

subsequently receives final approval of the planning commission. This subsection

shall not apply to instruments of transactions affecting property in counties

containing cities of the first class, in consolidated local governments created

pursuant to KRS Chapter 67C, or in urban -counties created pursuant to KRS

Chapter 67A.