SB169 Summary

• County commissions become responsible for regulating subdivisions in municipal extraterritorial jurisdictions if the county has adopted subdivision regulations, unless a written agreement between the county, municipal planning commission, and municipality authorizes the municipal planning commission to retain responsibility.

• When the municipal planning commission is responsible for subdivision development, the county engineer must certify plats and maps for filing after municipal planning commission approval, rather than providing independent approval.

• County engineer approval does not constitute approval on behalf of municipalities and does not diminish municipal requirements; the stricter standards between county and municipal regulations must be met.

• Subdivisions regulated by the county commission follow county subdivision regulations as provided in Chapter 24, with county-imposed penalties applied for violations.

• Act becomes effective October 1, 2011, and does not affect applications or subdivisions filed before the effective date; Sections 11-24-5 and 11-52-36 of the Code of Alabama 1975 are repealed.