(A) After the effective date of this chapter, the person who, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within the territorial jurisdiction of this chapter, thereafter subdivides his or her land in violation of this chapter or transfers or sells land by reference to, exhibition of, or any other use of a plat showing a subdivision of the land before the plat has been properly approved under the terms of this chapter and recorded in the office of the County Register of Deeds, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring land shall not exempt the transaction from this penalty. The county, through its attorney or other official designated by the Board of Commissioners, may enjoin illegal subdivision, transfer, or sale of land by action for injunction. Further, the violation of any provision of this chapter shall subject the offender to the penalties prescribed by G.S. § 153A-334.
(B) Violators of this chapter shall be subject, upon conviction, to fine and/or imprisonment as provided in G.S. § 14-4.
(C) The Land Records Office Supervisor or his or her designees are to enforce this chapter as it relates to the recording of illegal documents including maps and deeds.
(Ord. passed 1-8-2002)