(a) Upon filing of an application with the Planning Director for approval of a preliminary plat or general subdivision plan, the subdivider shall submit to the Planning Director such plans and data as may be required by the Planning Director as necessary to provide information as to the nature and scope of the project. Within 30 days from the submission of the plan, the Planning Director shall approve or disapprove said plan and notify the subdivider.
(b)
(1) In the event of approval of a preliminary plat or general subdivision plan the final plat which shall be submitted to the Planning Director within such time as the Director prescribes, shall conform substantially to the general subdivision plan and, if requested in writing by the subdivider, it may constitute only that portion of the approved preliminary plat which he proposed to record and develop at the time; Provided, however, That such portion conforms to all the requirements of this subchapter.
(2) Applications for approval of the plan shall be submitted in writing to the Planning Director.
(3) Four copies of the final plat and other exhibits required for approval shall be prepared as specified in Department of Planning and Natural Resources Rules and Regulations and shall be submitted to the Director of Planning within six months after approval of the preliminary plat; otherwise such approval shall become null and void unless an extension of time is applied for and granted by the Planning Director.
(4) The Planning Director shall confer with the Department of Planning and Natural Resources regarding connecting utilities and other engineering aspects of the final plat.
(5) Before the Planning Director grants final plat approval to a new sub-division in which a sub-divided parcel, as shown on the Preliminary Sub-division Plan submitted for the Director's approval is contiguous to existing potable water lines, as shown on the Water Distribution Maps of the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority at the time of the Planning Director's approval of the Preliminary Sub-division Plan, the sub-divider shall install and connect potable water lines to the contiguous plots in the subdivision, or satisfy the Planning Director that all costs and expenses incidental to the installation and connection of potable water lines to the contiguous plots in the subdivision have been paid provided there are public water lines operated by the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority or any other entity within one hundred feet of any boundary of the subdivision and public water lines are otherwise reasonably accessible to the sub-divider.
(6) Within 30 days from submission of the final plat the Planning Director shall approve or disapprove said plat and notify the subdivider. In case of disapproval the Planning Director shall notify the subdivider as to the reasons therefor.
(c) Upon disapproval of a preliminary plat or general subdivision plan, or final plat by the Planning Director the subdivider may request a hearing before the Commissioner of Planning and Natural Resources if such request is filed within 10 days from the receipt of notice of such disapproval.
(d) The duties of the Planning Director, under the provisions of this subsection, may be performed by the Assistant Planning Director at the direction of the Planning Director.
(e) Subdivision plans required under this chapter must comply with the provisions of Title 28, section 1006, Virgin Islands Code.