(a) Whoever violates any rule or regulation adopted by the legislative authority of the City of New Lexington, Ohio, 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 shall be charged with a misdemeanor of the first degree and upon conviction be imprisoned for no more than six (6) months and fined no more than $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 Law Director in the name and for the use of the City.
(c) Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land within or without a municipal corporation, transfers any lot, parcel or tract of such land from or in accordance with a plat of a subdivision before such plat has been recorded in the Office of the County Recorder, shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each lot, parcel or tract of land so sold. The description of such lot, parcel or tract by metes and bounds in the deed or transfer shall not serve to exempt the seller from the forfeiture provided in this section.
(d) Any person who disposes of, offers for sale or lease for a time exceeding five (5) years any lot or any part of a lot in a subdivision before provisions of these Regulations are complied with shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each lot or part of a lot so sold, offered for sale or lease, to be recovered with costs in a civil action, in the name of the City of New Lexington, Ohio. (Ord. 82-16. Passed 4-19-82.)