The following violations and penalties are hereby cited from KRS Ch. 100.
(A) No subdivision of land before approval. No person or his or her agent shall subdivide any land before securing the approval of the Planning Commission of a plat designating the area to be subdivided.
(B) No selling of land before approval. No person owning land composing a subdivision, or his or her agent, shall transfer or sell or agree to sell any lot or parcel of land located within a subdivision by reference to, or by exhibition, or by any other use of a plat of such subdivision, before such plat has received final approval of the Planning Commission and recorded by the County Clerk. However, subdivision plats recorded prior to establishment of these regulations shall be exempted. Any such instrument of transfer, sale or contract shall be void and shall not be subject to being recorded.
(C) Metes and bounds descriptions. The description of lots or parcels by metes and bounds in any contract or instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring same shall not exempt the person attempting to transfer from penalties provided or deprive the purchaser of any right or remedies he or she may otherwise have.
(D) No recording before approval. No plat of a subdivision of land shall be recorded by the County Clerk until the plat has been approved by the Commission and the approved entered thereon in writing by the Chairperson of the Commission.
(E) Injunction. The Planning Commission shall have the power to apply for an injunction against any type of subdivision constructed by a subdivider or a landowner where the subdivision regulations have been violated.
(Ord. passed 10- -1977; Ord. passed 1-6-1998; Ord. passed 11-12-2001)