Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within the jurisdiction of these regulations, knowingly or with an intent to defraud transfers or sells or agrees to sell or negotiates to sell any land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat of land subdivision before the plat has been approved by the Planning Commission and recorded or filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not more than $500 for each lot or parcel so transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to be sold, and the description of the lot or parcel by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or another document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from the penalties or from the remedies herein provided. The Mayor and Council may enjoin the transfer or sale or agreement by action for injunction brought in any court of equity, or may recover the penalty by civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction. Every act or omission in violation of this chapter shall be punishable as provided herein. Where an act or omission is of a continuing nature, each and every day during which the act or omission continues shall be deemed a separate misdemeanor.
(Prior Code, § 148-12) (Ord. passed 5-3-1975; Ord. 6-95, passed 11-6-1995)