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. Whoever violates these regulations shall be charged with a misdemeanor of the first degree and on conviction be imprisoned for no more than six months and fined no more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).
(b) A county recorder who records a plat contrary to the provisions of these regulations shall forfeit and pay not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) to be recovered with costs in a civil action by the Village Law Director in the name and for the use of the Village.
(c) Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land within a municipal corporation, transfers any lot, parcel, or tract of land from or in accordance with a plat of a subdivision before the plat has been recorded in the office of the County Recorder, shall be charged with a misdemeanor of the first degree and on conviction be imprisoned for no more than six months and fined no more than one thousand dollars ($1,000). The description of the lot, parcel, or tract by metes and bounds in the deed or transfer shall not serve to exempt the seller from this provision.
(Ord. 81-56. Passed 12-28-81.)