(a) Any person, firm, or corporation violating any regulation, provision, amendment, or supplement of this Code, or failing to obey any lawful order of the Zoning Commissioner, shall be deemed guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $500.00 or the maximum amount allowed by the ORC. Each and every day during which the illegal location, erection, construction, reconstruction, enlargement, change, maintenance or use continues may be deemed a separate offense.
(b) Whoever willfully violates any rule or regulation adopted by City Council for the purpose of setting standards and requiring and securing the construction of improvements within a subdivision, or fails to comply with any order issued pursuant thereto, shall forfeit and pay more than $1,000.00. This sum may be recovered with costs in a civil action brought in any court with jurisdiction.
(c) Whoever willfully transfers any lot, parcel or tract of such land from or in accordance with a plat of a subdivision before such plat has been recorded in the Defiance County Recorder's office, shall forfeit and pay up to $500.00 for each lot, parcel or tract of land so sold. The description of the lot, parcel or tract by metes and bounds in the deed or transfer shall not serve to exempt the seller from the forfeiture provided in this section. If the land is within the City, such sum may be recovered in a civil action brought in any court with jurisdiction by the Law Director in the name of the City.
(d) Whoever disposes of, offers for sale or leases for a time exceeding five years, any lot or any part of a lot in a subdivision with intent to violate this Code shall forfeit and up to $500.00 for each lot or part of a lot so sold, offered for sale or leased, to be recovered with costs in a civil action, in the name of the Finance Director, for the use of the City.
(Ord. 7675. Passed 11-11-14.)