The following violations and penalties are hereby cited from KRS Chapter 100 and incorporated herein.
(A) No subdivision of land before approval. No person or his or her agent shall subdivide any land before securing the Planning Commission’s approval of a plat designating the areas to be sold.
(B) No selling of land before approval. No subdivider owning land composing a subdivision, or his or her agent, shall transfer or agree to sell any lot or parcel of land located within such a subdivision by reference to, or by exhibition, or by any other use of a plat of such subdivision, before such plat has been approved by the Commission. Any such instrument of transfer, sale, or contract shall be void and shall not be subject to be recorded, but all rights of such purchaser to damages are hereby preserved.
(C) Metes and bounds descriptions no exception. The description of such lot or parcel by metes and bounds in any contract or instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring same shall not exempt the person attempting to transfer from the penalties provided, or deprive the purchaser of any rights or remedies he or she may otherwise have.
(D) Injunctions. The City of Winchester, the county, or the Planning Commission may bring action in the circuit court to prevent, correct, or abate the unlawful sale or use of land in violation of these regulations.
(Prior Code, § 74.930) (Ord. passed 3- -1995; Ord. passed 10- -2005; Ord. 2018-03, passed 2-14-2018; Ord. passed 1- -2020) Penalty, see § 153.999