(A) After the effective date of this chapter, no subdivision plat of land within the jurisdiction of this chapter shall be filed or recorded until it shall have been submitted to and approved by the appropriate authority.
(B) The Register of Deeds shall not file or record a plat of subdivision of land subject to this chapter that has not been approved in accordance with this chapter, nor shall the Clerk of Superior Court order or direct the recording of a plat if the recording would be in conflict with the provisions of this chapter.
(C) After the effective date of this chapter, any person who, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land within the jurisdiction of this chapter, thereafter subdivides his or her land in violation of this chapter or transfers or sells land by reference to, exhibition of, or any other use of plat showing a subdivision of land before the plat has been properly approved under this chapter and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The description by metes and bonds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring land shall not exempt the transaction from such penalty.
(D) Any violation of the terms of this chapter shall subject the violator to the penalties and remedies, civil, criminal or both, as set forth in § 10.99.
(Ord. passed 9-27-2021)