1115.99 PENALTY.

   (a)    Whoever willfully violates any rule or regulation adopted by the legislative authority of the City or a board of county commissioners pursuant to Ohio R.C. 711.101 or fails to comply with any order issued pursuant thereto, shall forfeit and pay not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).

   Such sum may be recovered with costs in a civil action brought in the Court of Common Pleas of the County in which the land lies relative to which such violation occurred, by the legal representative of the Village, City or County, in the name of such Village, City or County and for the use thereof. (ORC 711.102)

   (b)    A County recorder who records a plat contrary to the provisions of these Subdivision Regulations shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), to be recovered with the costs in a civil action by the Prosecuting Attorney in the name and for the use of the County. (ORC 711.12)

   (c)    Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land within or without a municipal corporation 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 office of the County Recorder, shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each lot, parcel or tract of land so sold. The description of such 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. (ORC 711.13)

   (d)    Any person who 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 these Subdivision Regulations shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($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 County Treasurer for use of the County.

(ORC 711.15; Ord. 45-67. Passed 8-7-67.)