(A) Planning Commission’s duly authorized representative approval required for all subdivisions. No person or his or her agent shall subdivide any land before securing the approval of the Planning Commission’s duly authorized representative of a plat designating the areas to be subdivided, and no plat of a subdivision of land within the planning unit jurisdiction shall be recorded by the County Clerk until the plat has been approved by the Commission’s duly authorized representative, and the approval entered thereon in writing by the chairperson.
(B) Sale of land in subdivision.
(1) No person owning land composing a subdivision, or his or her agent, shall transfer or sell or agree to sell any lot or parcel of land located within a subdivision by reference to, or by exhibition, or by any other use of a plat of such subdivision, before such plat has received final approval of the Planning Commission’s duly authorized representative, signed by the Chairperson of the Planning Commission and has been recorded.
(2) 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 preserved. 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 penalties provided or deprive the purchaser of any rights or remedies he or she may otherwise have.
(C) Revision of plat after approval. No changes, erasures, modifications or revisions shall be made in any plat of a subdivision after final approval has been given by the Planning Commission’s duly authorized representative and an endorsement is made in writing on the plat, unless the plat is first resubmitted and the changes approved by the Planning Commission’s duly authorized representative.
(D) Improvements in conflict with official map. After the applicable legislative body or fiscal court has adopted an official map, no board, public officer or authority shall accept, layout, improve or authorize any improvements to be constructed in any street, including rights-of-way, watercourses, park and playgrounds, public school or other public building sites shown on the official map, except as provided for in KRS 100.293 through 100.317.
(E) Enforcement by Planning Commission or its duly authorized representative. The Planning Commission or its duly authorized representative shall have a cause of action for all appropriate relief including injunctions against any governmental bodies or any person who violates any of these regulations.
(1984 Code, § 157.93) (Ord. O-86-78, passed 8-17-1978)