Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within a subdivision, transfers or sells any land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat of a subdivision, before such plat has been approved by the governing body and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of an amount as set by the City Council from time to time for each lot or parcel so transferred or sold; and the description or other document of such 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 such penalties or from the remedies herein provided. The governing body may enjoin such transfer or sale or agreement by action for injunction brought in any court of equity jurisdiction or may recover the same penalty by a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(Prior Code, § 28.07)