The following penalties shall apply to the violation of these regulations:
(a) Whoever willfully violates any rule or regulation adopted by 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 Municipality or any resident thereof. Whoever violates these Regulations 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 Defiance County.
(b) 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 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 of transfer shall not serve to exempt the seller from the forfeiture provided in this section.
(c) Whoever disposes of, offers for sale or lease for a time exceeding five years any lot or any part of a lot in a subdivision with intent to violate these Regulations 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 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 Treasurer for the use of the Municipality.