3.8.11 Transfer of Permits

Land disturbance permits may be transferred from one financially responsible party to another within the permit term. Transfer of a permit does not extend the permit term.

1. In order to transfer a land disturbance permit from one financially responsible party to another, the following documents must be submitted under the name of the new financially responsible party:

a. Completed Durham County Financial Responsibility/Ownership Form With Landowner Consent Form (FRO);

b. Improvement security, if required.

2. Transfer of permit shall include entirety of original permitted area, unless approved in writing by the Durham County Erosion Control Office.

For land-disturbing activities on a single-family residential lot involving new construction with land disturbance of less than one acre where the builder or developer is the owner of the lot being developed and the person financially responsible for the land-disturbing activity, the financial responsibility for land-disturbing activity on that lot transfers to the new owner upon the builder’s or developer’s conveyance of the lot to the new owner, recording of the deed in the office of the register of deeds, and notification to the Durham County Erosion Control Office.