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An Act To Amend the Municipal Subdivision Laws
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §4401, sub-§4, ¶D-6, as amended by PL 2013, c. 126, §1, is further amended to read:
 
D-6.  A division accomplished by the transfer of any interest in land to the owners of land abutting that land does not create a lot or lots for the purposes of this definition, unless the intent of the transferor is to avoid the objectives of this subchapter. If the real estate exempt under this paragraph is transferred within 5 years to another person without all of the merged land, then the previously exempt division creates a lot or lots for the purposes of this subsection.
 
SUMMARY
This bill amends the law that defines a "subdivision." Current law provides that a subdivision is not created by the transfer of any interest in land to the owners of land abutting that land, unless the intent of the transferor is to avoid the objectives of the law governing subdivisions. The provision, however, qualifies this exclusion and provides that a subdivision is created if the land that was transferred is again transferred within 5 years to another person without all of the merged land; this bill removes this additional qualification.