Unless the method of disposition is adopted for the purpose of evading these regulations, the requirements of this title shall not apply to any division of land which:

A. Is created by order of any court of record in the state or by operation of law or which, in the absence of agreement between the parties to the sale, could be created by an order of any court in the state pursuant to the law of eminent domain;

B. Is created to provide security for construction mortgages, liens or trust indentures;

C. Creates an interest in oil, gas, minerals, or water which is now or hereafter severed from the surface ownership of real property;

D. Creates cemetery lots;

E. Is created by the reservation of a life estate;

F. Is created by lease or rental for farming and agricultural purposes;

G. Condominiums constructed on land divided in compliance with these regulations;

H. Division of state-owned land, unless the division creates a second or subsequent parcel from a single-tract for sale, rent, or lease for residential purposes after July 1, 1974;

I. Sale, rent, lease or other conveyance of one or more parts of a building, structure and other improvements situated on one or more parcels of land. (Ord. 588 § 1(part), 1996)