California Code
TITLE 7 - PLANNING AND LAND USE
DIVISION 2 - SUBDIVISIONS

CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions and Definitions

ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

Section 66410. - 66410. This division may be cited as the Subdivision Map...

Section 66411. - 66411. Regulation and control of the design and improvement of...

Section 66411.1. - 66411.1. (a) Notwithstanding Section 66428, whenever a local ordinance requires...

Section 66411.5. - 66411.5. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, whenever...

Section 66411.7. - 66411.7. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division and...

Section 66412. - 66412. This division shall be inapplicable to any of the...

Section 66412.1. - 66412.1. This division shall also be inapplicable to: (a) The...

Section 66412.2. - 66412.2. This division shall not apply to the construction, financing,...

Section 66412.3. - 66412.3. In carrying out the provisions of this division, each...

Section 66412.5. - 66412.5. When so provided by local ordinance, this division shall...

Section 66412.6. - 66412.6. (a) For purposes of this division or of a...

Section 66412.7. - 66412.7. A subdivision shall be deemed established for purposes of...

Section 66412.8. - 66412.8. (a) A project located in Los Angeles County that...

Section 66412.9. - 66412.9. This division shall not apply to leases of agriculturally...

Section 66413. - 66413. (a) When any area in a subdivision as to...

Section 66413.5. - 66413.5. (a) When any area in a subdivision or proposed...

ARTICLE 2 - Definitions

Section 66414. - 66414. The definitions in this article apply to the provisions...

Section 66415. - 66415. “Advisory agency” means a designated official or an official...

Section 66416. - 66416. “Appeal board” means a designated board or other official...

Section 66416.5. - 66416.5. (a) “City engineer” means the person authorized to perform...

Section 66417. - 66417. (a) “County surveyor” includes county engineer, if there is...

Section 66418. - 66418. “Design” means: (1) street alignments, grades and widths; (2)...

Section 66418.1. - 66418.1. “Development” means the uses to which the land which...

Section 66418.2. - 66418.2. (a) “Environmental subdivision” means a subdivision of land pursuant...

Section 66419. - 66419. (a) “Improvement” refers to any street work and utilities...

Section 66420. - 66420. “Local agency” means a city, county or city and...

Section 66421. - 66421. “Local ordinance” refers to a local ordinance regulating the...

Section 66422. - 66422. “Certificate of exception” means a valid authorization to subdivide...

Section 66423. - 66423. “Subdivider” means a person, firm, corporation, partnership or association...

Section 66424. - 66424. “Subdivision” means the division, by any subdivider, of any...

Section 66424.1. - 66424.1. Nothing in Section 66424 shall prevent a purchaser of...

Section 66424.5. - 66424.5. (a) “Tentative map” refers to a map made for...

Section 66424.6. - 66424.6. (a) When a subdivision, as defined in Section 66424,...

CHAPTER 2 - Maps

ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

Section 66425. - 66425. The necessity for tentative, final and parcel maps shall...

Section 66426. - 66426. A tentative and final map shall be required for...

Section 66426.5. - 66426.5. Any conveyance of land to or from a governmental...

Section 66427. - 66427. (a) A map of a condominium project, a community...

Section 66427.1. - 66427.1. (a) The legislative body shall not approve a final...

Section 66427.2. - 66427.2. Unless applicable general or specific plans contain definite objectives...

Section 66427.4. - 66427.4. (a) At the time of filing a tentative or...

Section 66427.5. - 66427.5. At the time of filing a tentative or parcel...

Section 66427.6. - 66427.6. At the time of filing a tentative or parcel...

Section 66428. - 66428. (a) Local ordinances may require a tentative map where...

Section 66428.1. - 66428.1. (a) When at least two-thirds of the owners of...

Section 66429. - 66429. Of the maps required by this division, only final...

Section 66430. - 66430. No final map or parcel map required by this...

Section 66431. - 66431. Upon mutual agreement of their respective legislative bodies, the...

ARTICLE 2 - Final Maps

Section 66433. - 66433. The content and form of final maps shall be...

Section 66434. - 66434. The final map shall be prepared by or under...

Section 66434.1. - 66434.1. In the event that an owner’s development lien has...

Section 66434.2. - 66434.2. (a) On or after January 1, 1987, a city...

Section 66434.5. - 66434.5. When a soils report, geologic report, or soils and...

Section 66435. - 66435. Prior to filing, those certificates, statements, and acknowledgments set...

Section 66435.1. - 66435.1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, local agencies...

Section 66435.2. - 66435.2. Whenever a certificate, statement, or acknowledgment is made by...

Section 66436. - 66436. (a) A statement, signed and acknowledged by all parties...

Section 66439. - 66439. (a) Dedications of, or offers to dedicate interests in,...

Section 66440. - 66440. The final map shall contain a certificate or statement...

Section 66441. - 66441. A statement by the engineer or surveyor responsible for...

Section 66442. - 66442. (a) If a subdivision for which a final map...

Section 66442.5. - 66442.5. The following statements shall appear on a final map:...

Section 66443. - 66443. In addition to the certificates, statements, and acknowledgments required...

ARTICLE 3 - Parcel Maps

Section 66444. - 66444. The content and form of parcel maps shall be...

Section 66445. - 66445. The parcel map shall be prepared by, or under...

Section 66447. - 66447. (a) If dedications or offers of dedication are required,...

Section 66448. - 66448. In all cases where a parcel map is required,...

Section 66449. - 66449. The following statements shall appear on a parcel map:...

Section 66450. - 66450. (a) If a subdivision for which a parcel map...

CHAPTER 3 - Procedure

ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

Section 66451. - 66451. The procedures set forth in this chapter shall govern...

Section 66451.1. - 66451.1. (a) The time limits specified in this chapter for...

Section 66451.2. - 66451.2. The local agency may establish reasonable fees for the...

Section 66451.3. - 66451.3. (a) Unless otherwise provided by this division, notice of...

Section 66451.4. - 66451.4. No advisory agency or legislative body shall disapprove an...

Section 66451.6. - 66451.6. No fee shall be charged by a local agency...

Section 66451.7. - 66451.7. Applications for an exception from the Subdivision Map Act...

ARTICLE 1.5 - Merger of Parcels

Section 66451.10. - 66451.10. (a) Notwithstanding Section 66424, except as is otherwise provided...

Section 66451.11. - 66451.11. A local agency may, by ordinance which conforms to...

Section 66451.12. - 66451.12. A merger of parcels becomes effective when the local...

Section 66451.13. - 66451.13. Prior to recording a notice of merger, the local...

Section 66451.14. - 66451.14. At any time within 30 days after recording of...

Section 66451.15. - 66451.15. Upon receiving a request for a hearing on determination...

Section 66451.16. - 66451.16. At the hearing, the property owner shall be given...

Section 66451.17. - 66451.17. If, within the 30-day period specified in Section 66451.14,...

Section 66451.18. - 66451.18. If, in accordance with Section 66451.16 or 66451.17, the...

Section 66451.19. - 66451.19. (a) Except as provided in Sections 66451.195, 66451.301, and...

Section 66451.195. - 66451.195. (a) Counties more than 20,000 square miles in size...

Section 66451.20. - 66451.20. Prior to amending a merger ordinance which was in...

Section 66451.21. - 66451.21. Prior to the adoption of a merger ordinance in...

Section 66451.22. - 66451.22. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (1)...

Section 66451.23. - 66451.23. Prior to adopting any ordinance authorized by Section 66451.22,...

Section 66451.24. - 66451.24. (a) Nothing in this article prohibits a landowner, local...

ARTICLE 1.7 - Unmerger of Parcels

Section 66451.30. - 66451.30. Any parcels or units of land for which a...

Section 66451.301. - 66451.301. If any parcels or units of land merged under...

Section 66451.302. - 66451.302. (a) By January 1, 1987, a city or county...

Section 66451.31. - 66451.31. Upon application made by the owner and payment of...

Section 66451.32. - 66451.32. (a) Upon a determination that the parcels meet the...

Section 66451.33. - 66451.33. A city or county may impose a fee not...

ARTICLE 2 - Tentative Maps

Section 66452. - 66452. (a) A tentative map shall be filed with the...

Section 66452.1. - 66452.1. (a) If the advisory agency is not authorized by...

Section 66452.2. - 66452.2. (a) If there is an advisory agency which is...

Section 66452.3. - 66452.3. Any report or recommendation on a tentative map by...

Section 66452.4. - 66452.4. (a) If no action is taken upon a tentative...

Section 66452.5. - 66452.5. (a) (1) The subdivider, or any tenant of the...

Section 66452.6. - 66452.6. (a) (1) An approved or conditionally approved tentative map...

Section 66452.10. - 66452.10. A stock cooperative, as defined in Section 11003.2 of...

Section 66452.11. - 66452.11. (a) The expiration date of any tentative subdivision map...

Section 66452.12. - 66452.12. (a) Any permit issued by a local agency in...

Section 66452.13. - 66452.13. (a) The expiration date of any tentative or vesting...

Section 66452.17. - 66452.17. (a) Commencing at a date not less than 60...

Section 66452.18. - 66452.18. (a) Pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) of...

Section 66452.19. - 66452.19. (a) Pursuant to the provisions of subparagraph (E) of...

Section 66452.20. - 66452.20. (a) Pursuant to subparagraph (F) of paragraph (2) of...

Section 66452.21. - 66452.21. (a) The expiration date of any tentative or vesting...

Section 66452.22. - 66452.22. (a) The expiration date of any tentative or vesting...

Section 66452.23. - 66452.23. (a) The expiration date of any tentative map, vesting...

Section 66452.24. - 66452.24. (a) The expiration date of any tentative map, vesting...

Section 66452.25. - 66452.25. (a) If the map was approved within a county...

Section 66452.26. - 66452.26. The expiration date of any tentative map, vesting tentative...

Section 66452.27. - 66452.27. (a) A legislative body located within the County of...

ARTICLE 2.5 - New Rental Housing: Conversion

Section 66452.50. - 66452.50. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, a...

Section 66452.51. - 66452.51. Prior to the acceptance of any rent or deposit...

ARTICLE 3 - Review of Tentative Map by Other Agencies

Section 66453. - 66453. (a) A local agency may make recommendations concerning proposed...

Section 66454. - 66454. Any subdivider may file with a city the tentative...

Section 66455. - 66455. (a) The Department of Transportation may file with the...

Section 66455.1. - 66455.1. (a) The Department of Water Resources may file with...

Section 66455.3. - 66455.3. Not later than five days after a city or...

Section 66455.7. - 66455.7. (a) Within five days of a tentative map application...

Section 66455.9. - 66455.9. Whenever there is consideration of an area within a...

ARTICLE 4 - Final Maps

Section 66456. - 66456. After the approval or conditional approval of the tentative...

Section 66456.1. - 66456.1. Multiple final maps relating to an approved or conditionally...

Section 66456.2. - 66456.2. (a) An improvement plan being processed in conjunction with...

Section 66457. - 66457. (a) A final map or parcel map conforming to...

Section 66458. - 66458. (a) The legislative body shall, at the meeting at...

Section 66459. - 66459. (a) If a final map has been approved for...

Section 66462. - 66462. (a) If, at the time of approval of the...

Section 66462.5. - 66462.5. (a) A city, county, or city and county shall...

ARTICLE 5 - Parcel Maps

Section 66463. - 66463. (a) Except as otherwise provided for in this code,...

Section 66463.1. - 66463.1. Multiple parcel maps filed pursuant to Section 66426 relating...

Section 66463.5. - 66463.5. (a) When a tentative map is required, an approved...

ARTICLE 6 - Filing Maps With County Recorder

Section 66464. - 66464. (a) Unless otherwise provided by the county, if the...

Section 66465. - 66465. The subdivider shall present to the county recorder evidence...

Section 66466. - 66466. (a) The county recorder shall have not more than...

Section 66467. - 66467. This chapter shall not prevent filing in the office...

Section 66468. - 66468. The filing for record of a final or parcel...

Section 66468.1. - 66468.1. Whenever separate documents are to be recorded concurrently with...

Section 66468.2. - 66468.2. The board of supervisors may, by resolution, authorize any...

ARTICLE 7 - Correction and Amendment of Maps

Section 66469. - 66469. After a final map or parcel map is filed...

Section 66470. - 66470. The amending map or certificate of correction shall be...

Section 66471. - 66471. (a) If the subdivision is in unincorporated territory, the...

Section 66472. - 66472. The amending map or certificate of correction certified by...

Section 66472.1. - 66472.1. In addition to the amendments authorized by Section 66469,...

CHAPTER 4 - Requirements

ARTICLE 1 - General

Section 66473. - 66473. A local agency shall disapprove a map for failure...

Section 66473.1. - 66473.1. (a) The design of a subdivision for which a...

Section 66473.3. - 66473.3. The legislative body of a city or county may,...

Section 66473.5. - 66473.5. No local agency shall approve a tentative map, or...

Section 66473.6. - 66473.6. Whenever a city or county imposes as a condition...

Section 66473.7. - 66473.7. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following...

Section 66474. - 66474. A legislative body of a city or county shall...

Section 66474.01. - 66474.01. Notwithstanding subdivision (e) of Section 66474, a local government...

Section 66474.02. - 66474.02. (a) Before approving a tentative map, or a parcel...

Section 66474.1. - 66474.1. A legislative body shall not deny approval of a...

Section 66474.2. - 66474.2. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b) or...

Section 66474.3. - 66474.3. (a) If the legislative body of a city or...

Section 66474.4. - 66474.4. (a) The legislative body of a city or county...

Section 66474.5. - 66474.5. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, after the amendments required...

Section 66474.6. - 66474.6. The governing body of any local agency shall determine...

Section 66474.7. - 66474.7. The responsibilities of the governing body under the provisions...

Section 66474.8. - 66474.8. No ordinance, regulation, policy, or procedure which regulates or...

Section 66474.9. - 66474.9. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a local...

Section 66474.10. - 66474.10. If the legislative body or advisory agency determines that...

ARTICLE 2 - Advisory Agencies

Section 66474.60. - 66474.60. (a) In cities having a population of more than...

Section 66474.61. - 66474.61. In cities having a population of more than 2,800,000,...

Section 66474.62. - 66474.62. In cities having a population of more than 2,800,000,...

Section 66474.63. - 66474.63. In cities having a population of more than 2,800,000,...

Section 66474.64. - 66474.64. In cities having a population of more than 2,800,000,...

ARTICLE 3 - Dedications

Section 66475. - 66475. There may be imposed by local ordinance a requirement...

Section 66475.1. - 66475.1. Whenever a subdivider is required pursuant to Section 66475...

Section 66475.2. - 66475.2. (a) There may be imposed by local ordinance a...

Section 66475.3. - 66475.3. For divisions of land for which a tentative map...

Section 66476. - 66476. There may be imposed by local ordinance a requirement...

Section 66477. - 66477. (a) The legislative body of a city or county...

Section 66477.1. - 66477.1. (a) At the time the legislative body or the...

Section 66477.2. - 66477.2. (a) If at the time the final map is...

Section 66477.3. - 66477.3. Acceptance of offers of dedication on a final map...

Section 66477.5. - 66477.5. (a) The local agency to which property is dedicated...

Section 66478. - 66478. Whether by request of a county board of education...

ARTICLE 3.5 - Public Access to Public Resources

Section 66478.1. - 66478.1. It is the intent of the Legislature, by the...

Section 66478.2. - 66478.2. The Legislature finds and declares that the public natural...

Section 66478.3. - 66478.3. The Legislature further finds and declares that it is...

Section 66478.4. - 66478.4. (a) No local agency shall approve either a tentative...

Section 66478.5. - 66478.5. (a) No local agency shall approve either a tentative...

Section 66478.6. - 66478.6. Any public access route or routes and any easement...

Section 66478.7. - 66478.7. Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit...

Section 66478.8. - 66478.8. Nothing in Sections 66478.1 to 66478.10, inclusive, of this...

Section 66478.9. - 66478.9. Nothing in Section 66478.5 shall apply to the site...

Section 66478.10. - 66478.10. Nothing in Sections 66478.1 through 66478.10 of this article...

Section 66478.11. - 66478.11. (a) No local agency shall approve either the tentative...

Section 66478.12. - 66478.12. (a) No local agency shall approve either the tentative...

Section 66478.13. - 66478.13. No local agency shall issue any permit or grant...

Section 66478.14. - 66478.14. Nothing in this article shall be construed as requiring...

ARTICLE 4 - Reservations

Section 66479. - 66479. There may be imposed by local ordinance a requirement...

Section 66480. - 66480. The public agency for whose benefit an area has...

Section 66481. - 66481. If the public agency for whose benefit an area...

Section 66482. - 66482. The authority granted by this article is additional to...

ARTICLE 5 - Fees

Section 66483. - 66483. There may be imposed by local ordinance a requirement...

Section 66483.1. - 66483.1. After completion of the facilities and the payment of...

Section 66483.2. - 66483.2. Any surplus remaining shall be refunded as follows: (a)...

Section 66484. - 66484. (a) A local ordinance may require the payment of...

Section 66484.3. - 66484.3. (a) Notwithstanding Section 66007, the Board of Supervisors of...

Section 66484.5. - 66484.5. (a) The legislative body of a local agency may...

Section 66484.7. - 66484.7. (a) A local ordinance may require the payment of...

Section 66484.9. - 66484.9. The authorizations granted by this article are additional to...

ARTICLE 6 - Reimbursement

Section 66485. - 66485. There may be imposed by local ordinance a requirement...

Section 66486. - 66486. In the event of the installation of improvements required...

Section 66487. - 66487. In order to pay the costs as required by...

Section 66488. - 66488. Any local agency within a local drainage or sanitary...

Section 66489. - 66489. Any local agency may establish an area of benefit...

ARTICLE 7 - Soils Report

Section 66490. - 66490. A preliminary soils report, prepared by a civil engineer...

Section 66491. - 66491. With respect to the soils report, a local ordinance...

ARTICLE 8 - Taxes and Assessments

Section 66492. - 66492. Prior to the filing of the final map or...

Section 66493. - 66493. (a) Whenever any part of the subdivision is subject...

Section 66494. - 66494. (a) If the taxes or special assessments are allowed...

Section 66494.1. - 66494.1. The board of supervisors may, by resolution, authorize any...

ARTICLE 9 - Monuments

Section 66495. - 66495. At the time of making the survey for the...

Section 66496. - 66496. Interior monuments need not be set at the time...

Section 66497. - 66497. (a) Within five days after the final setting of...

Section 66498. - 66498. In the event of the death, disability or retirement...

CHAPTER 4.5 - Development Rights

Section 66498.1. - 66498.1. (a) Whenever a provision of this division requires that...

Section 66498.2. - 66498.2. If the ordinances, policies, or standards described in subdivision...

Section 66498.3. - 66498.3. (a) Whenever a subdivider files a vesting tentative map...

Section 66498.4. - 66498.4. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, a property owner...

Section 66498.5. - 66498.5. (a) If a subdivider does not seek the rights...

Section 66498.6. - 66498.6. (a) This chapter does not enlarge, diminish, or alter...

Section 66498.7. - 66498.7. (a) Until December 31, 1987, this chapter shall apply...

Section 66498.8. - 66498.8. (a) On or before January 1, 1986, a city,...

Section 66498.9. - 66498.9. By the enactment of this article, the Legislature intends...

CHAPTER 5 - Improvement Security

Section 66499. - 66499. (a) Whenever this division or a local ordinance authorizes...

Section 66499.1. - 66499.1. Except as provided in Section 66499.3, a bond or...

Section 66499.2. - 66499.2. A bond or bonds by one or more duly...

Section 66499.3. - 66499.3. Security to guarantee the performance of any act or...

Section 66499.4. - 66499.4. As a part of the obligation guaranteed by the...

Section 66499.5. - 66499.5. If the required subdivision improvements are financed and installed...

Section 66499.6. - 66499.6. Such money, negotiable bond or instrument of credit shall...

Section 66499.7. - 66499.7. The security furnished by the subdivider shall be released...

Section 66499.8. - 66499.8. In all cases where the performance of the obligation...

Section 66499.9. - 66499.9. Any liability upon the security given for the faithful...

Section 66499.10. - 66499.10. Where the security is conditioned upon the payment to...

CHAPTER 6 - Reversions and Exclusions

ARTICLE 1 - Reversion to Acreage

Section 66499.11. - 66499.11. Subdivided real property may be reverted to acreage pursuant...

Section 66499.12. - 66499.12. (a) Proceedings for reversion to acreage may be initiated...

Section 66499.13. - 66499.13. The petition shall be in a form prescribed by...

Section 66499.14. - 66499.14. The legislative body may establish a fee for processing...

Section 66499.15. - 66499.15. A public hearing shall be held on the proposed...

Section 66499.16. - 66499.16. Subdivided real property may be reverted to acreage only...

Section 66499.17. - 66499.17. As conditions of reversion the legislative body shall require:...

Section 66499.18. - 66499.18. Reversion shall be effective upon the final map being...

Section 66499.19. - 66499.19. When a reversion is effective, all fees and deposits...

Section 66499.20. - 66499.20. A tax bond shall not be required in reversion...

Section 66499.20.1. - 66499.20.1. A city or county may, by ordinance, authorize a...

Section 66499.20.2. - 66499.20.2. Subdivided lands may be merged and resubdivided without reverting...

Section 66499.20.3. - 66499.20.3. A city or county may, by ordinance, authorize the...

ARTICLE 2 - Exclusions

Section 66499.21. - 66499.21. The superior court of the county in which a...

Section 66499.22. - 66499.22. A proceeding for exclusion shall be initiated by filing...

Section 66499.23. - 66499.23. The petition shall be accompanied by a new map...

Section 66499.24. - 66499.24. Upon the filing of a petition pursuant to this...

Section 66499.25. - 66499.25. The court may, if no objection has been filed,...

Section 66499.26. - 66499.26. If objection is made to the petition which, in...

Section 66499.27. - 66499.27. The exclusion of any real property or the alteration...

Section 66499.28. - 66499.28. A certified copy of the decree of the superior...

Section 66499.29. - 66499.29. At the time a certified copy of the decree...

CHAPTER 7 - Enforcement and Judicial Review

ARTICLE 1 - Prohibition and Penalty

Section 66499.30. - 66499.30. (a) No person shall sell, lease, or finance any...

Section 66499.31. - 66499.31. Each violation of this division by a person who...

ARTICLE 2 - Remedies

Section 66499.32. - 66499.32. (a) Any deed of conveyance, sale or contract to...

Section 66499.33. - 66499.33. This division does not bar any legal, equitable or...

Section 66499.34. - 66499.34. No local agency shall issue any permit or grant...

Section 66499.35. - 66499.35. (a) Any person owning real property or a vendee...

Section 66499.36. - 66499.36. Whenever a local agency has knowledge that real property...

ARTICLE 3 - Judicial Review

Section 66499.37. - 66499.37. Any action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside,...

Section 66499.38. - 66499.38. Any action brought in the superior court relating to...

CHAPTER 8 - The Starter Home Revitalization Act of 2021

Section 66499.40. - 66499.40. (a) A development proponent may submit an application that...