1230.02  PENALTIES.
   (1)   Any person, firm or corporation violating any regulation, provision, amendment or supplement to this Code, or failing to obey any lawful order of the Zoning Division issued in pursuance thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree and, upon conviction thereof, shall be jailed for not more than sixty days and/or fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or the maximum amount allowed by the Ohio Revised Code.  Each and every day during which such illegal location, erection, construction, reconstruction, enlargement, change, maintenance or use continues may be deemed a separate offence.
   (2)   Whoever willfully violates any rule or regulation adopted by the City Council by resolution or ordinance pursuant to Section 3.3 of the City of Green Charter, 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 Summit County, relative to which the violation occurred, by the legal representative of the City, in the name of the City and for the use thereof.
   (3)   Any person, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land, who willfully transfers any lot, parcel or tract of such land from or in accordance with a plat of a subdivision as specifically defined in Ohio R.C. Chapter 711, before such plat has been recorded in the office of the County Fiscal Officer, shall forfeit and pay the sum of 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 subsection.
(Ord. 2009-21.  Passed 10-27-09.)