(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to subdivide, plat, or lay out into lots any land within the Village except in compliance with the Subdivision Regulations herein contained. No plat shall be recorded and no lot or land shall be sold from any such plat until said plat has been approved as herein required. No plat of any subdivision shall be recorded in the office of the County Recorder or have any validity until it has been approved in the manner prescribed herein. In the event any such unapproved plat is recorded, it shall be considered invalid and the City shall institute proceedings to have the plat stricken from the County records.
(b) No building permit or certificate of occupancy shall be issued for any parcel or plat of land which was created by subdivision not in conformity with the provisions of these Regulations. No excavation of land or construction of any public or private improvements shall take place or be commenced except in conformity with these Regulations.
(c) No owner or agent of the owner of any land located within a subdivision shall transfer or agree to transfer ownership in the future by reference to, exhibition of, or by the use of a plan or plat of a subdivision before such plan or plat has been approved and recorded in the manner prescribed herein. Any sale or transfer contrary to the provision of this section shall invalidate the plat or plan. The description of such sublot or parcel by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other documents used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from the provisions of these Regulations.
(Ord. 98-28. Passed 9-1-98.)