No selling of land before approval. No person owning land composing a subdivision, or his 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. Any such instrument of transfer, sale, or contract shall be void and shall not be subject to be recorded. 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 may otherwise have.
(Ord. 682, passed 2-22-79) Penalty, see § 155.99