A. Whoever being the owner, or agent of the owner, of any land within a subdivision in the Town Of Middletown transfers, sells, or negotiates to sell any land, by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat of such subdivision before such plat has been approved by the Planning Board and has been recorded, shall be subject to a penalty of up to five hundred dollars ($500) for each lot so transferred, sold or negotiated for sale, and the description of such lot by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of transferring or selling shall not except the transaction from such penalties or from the remedies herein provided.
B. The Town of Middletown may enjoin such transfer or sale of agreement by action for injunction brought in the Superior Court for Newport County, or may recover such penalty by an action of the case in any court of competent jurisdiction or may pursue both of such remedies. (Title 45, Chapter 23, Section 59 of the General Laws of Rhode Island, 1992)