(A) Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within a subdivision, transfers or sells or agrees to sell or negotiate to sell any land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat of a subdivision, before the plat has been approved by the Planning Commission and recorded or filed in the office of the appropriate county clerk, shall forfeit and pay a civil penalty of not less than $200 and not more than $1,000 in the discretion of the court, for each lot or parcel so transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to be sold; and the description of the lot or parcel by 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 the penalties or from the remedies herein provided. The county may enjoin the transfer or sale or agreement by action for injunction brought in any court of equity jurisdiction or may recover the penalty by civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(B) Subsection (A) above does not apply to a contract for sale, or negotiation for sale of property zoned industrial, commercial, or both industrial and commercial, if a plat is approved and recorded in accordance with this article prior to the transfer of land.
(1959 Code, § 38A-34) (Ord. 90-23-621, 6-15-1990; Ord. 14-23-678, 11-13-2014)
Statutory reference:
Sale or transfer of lots in unapproved subdivisions, see Md. Code Ann., Land Use Article § 5-301 and § 9-1004