(A) The county may being an action for injunction and order abatement for any illegal residential subdivision, transfer, conveyance or sale of land therein, and the court shall, upon appropriate findings, issue an injunction and order requiring the offending party to comply with this chapter under G.S. § 160D-807. This chapter may also be enforced by other appropriate, equitable remedies issued from a court of competent jurisdiction under G.S. §160D-807.
(B) It shall be a violation if a person who is the owner or the agent of the owner of any land located within the territorial jurisdiction of the county, subdivides his land in violation of this chapter, or transfers or sells land by reference to, exhibition of, or any other use of a plat showing such residential subdivision before the plat has been properly approved under this chapter and recorded in the office of the County Register of Deeds. Such violation shall be a misdemeanor.
(C) The description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring land does not exempt the transaction from this penalty.
(Ord. passed 3-20-96; Am. Ord. passed 3-5-12; Am. Ord. passed 12-19-22; Am. Ord. passed 8-21-23)