The following penalties shall apply to the violations of these regulations.
(A) Whoever violates any rule or regulation adopted by the Village 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 pursuant thereto is creating a public nuisance and the creation thereof may be enjoined and maintenance thereof may be abated by action at suit of the village or any citizen thereof. Whoever violates these regulations shall forfeit and pay not less than $100 nor more than $1,000. Such sum may be recovered with costs brought in the Court of Common Pleas of the county.
(B) A County Recorder who records a plat contrary to the provisions of these regulations shall forfeit and pay not less than $100 nor more than $500, to be recovered with costs in a civil action by the prosecuting attorney in the name and for the use of the village.
(C) Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land within or without a municipal corporation, transfers any lot, parcel, or tract of such land from or in such accordance with a plat of a subdivision before such plat has been recorded in the office of the County Recorder shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less than $100 nor more than $500 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. If such land is within a municipal corporation, such sum may be recovered in a civil action brought in the Court of Common Pleas of the county by the Village Solicitor in the name of the village.
(D) Any person who disposes of, offers for sale, or lease for a time exceeding five years any lot or any part of a lot in a subdivision before provisions of these regulations are complied with shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less than $100 and not more than $500 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 Village Fiscal Officer for the use of the village.
(Prior Code, § 1256.01) (Ord. 2000-9, passed 9-11-2000)