Any person who, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within the planning and development jurisdiction of Dare County, thereafter subdivides his or her land in violation of the regulation 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 under such regulation and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds, shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The description of metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from this penalty. Dare County may bring an action for injunction of any illegal subdivision, transfer, conveyance or sale of land, and the court shall, upon appropriate findings, issue an injunction and order requiring the offending party to comply with the subdivision regulation. Building permits required pursuant to G.S. § 160D-1108 may be denied for lots that have been illegally subdivided. In addition to other remedies, Dare County may institute any appropriate action or proceedings to prevent the unlawful subdivision of land, to restrain, correct, or abate the violation, or to prevent any illegal act or conduct.
(Prior Code, § 153.99) (Ord. passed 11-29-1982; Am. Ord. passed 6-1-2021)