- (a) From and after the effective date of this part, no real estate developer shall cause any new subdivision to be created or platted, containing in the aggregate fifty (50) or more lots, any part of which subdivision is located within two thousand six hundred forty feet (2,640’) of any lake or stream, and which will not be connected to a public sanitary sewer collection and treatment system, unless the developer shall have first submitted to the Division of Environmental Quality for approval plans for a disposal system or systems to serve said subdivision adequate to prevent pollution of the waters of the State of Arkansas, together with an application for a permit to install and operate such system or systems, and unless a disposal permit, or approval of future phased construction of the system or systems, has been issued by the division.
(b)
- (1) Any presently subdivided land owned and/or developed by a single developer or a group of developers acting in concert, hereinafter called development, where such subdivided land is contiguous or is known, designated, or advertised as a common unit or by a common name and is being offered for sale as part of a common promotional plan shall be covered by this part, and the developer shall obtain a disposal permit as required by subsection (a) of this section, without regard to the number of lots in successive individual offerings or subdivisions and without regard to the platting and partial sale of lots in said development prior to the adoption of this part so long as said developer or developers own fifty (50) or more lots in said development, as of the effective date of this part, which are predominately contiguous to each other, any of which are located within two thousand six hundred forty feet (2,640’) of any lake or stream, and are not connected to a public sanitary sewer collection and treatment system.
- (2) A permit for developments covered by this subsection (b) shall be filed with the division within sixty (60) days after the effective date of this part.