36-21A-93. Application for subdivision certificate--Fee--Contents--Additional information.

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Before subdivided land is offered for sale the subdivider shall apply in writing for a subdivision certificate to the commission on a form furnished by the commission and approved by the attorney general. The application shall be accompanied by a filing fee of one hundred dollars plus twenty - five dollars for each one hundred lots or fraction thereof to be offered for sale. The application shall contain the following information and supporting documents:

(1)The name, address and business status of the applicant;

(2)If the applicant is a partnership, the names and addresses of the partners;

(3)If the applicant is a corporation, the place of incorporation and the names and addresses of its officers and members of its board of directors;

(4)The legal description and area of the real estate to be offered for sale, including maps and recorded plats showing the area involved;

(5)The name and address of the legal owner of the real estate to be offered for sale;

(6)A certified, audited financial statement fully disclosing the current financial condition of the developer;

(7)A statement of the condition of the title of the subdivided lands, including encumbrances as of a specified date within thirty days of the application;

(8)Copies of the instruments by which the interest in the subdivided lands was acquired and a statement of any lien or encumbrances, if any, with dates as to recording, along with the documentary evidence that any mortgagee or trustee of a deed of trust has subordinated his interest in the real estate to the interest of a purchaser of the real estate;

(9)A true statement of the terms and conditions on which it is intended to dispose of the real estate, together with copies of any contracts intended to be used. The contracts shall contain a provision entitling the purchaser, if he has not seen the land, to an unconditional right to rescind the contract and the unconditional right of refund of all payments made under the contract after inspecting the land if inspection is made within a time provided in the contract which may not be less than four months from the date of the contract and if the demand for refund or rescission of the contract is made within twenty days of the inspection. Any payment made by the purchaser shall be held in trust in a bank located in this state for four months or twenty days after inspection, whichever occurs first, and no portion of the payment may be expended for any purpose before the expiration of the trust period. The rescission period may be waived by the purchaser;

(10)A statement of the zoning and other governmental regulations affecting the use of the land to be sold or offered for sale disclosing whether or not such regulations have been satisfied;

(11)A copy of an offering statement which sets forth the material facts with respect to the land to be offered or sold.

After receiving the application, the commission may require such additional information concerning the real estate as it considers necessary.