(a) Recording of Plat. No plat of any subdivision shall be recorded by the County Recorder of Mahoning County or have any validity until such plat has received final approval in the manner prescribed in these regulations.
(b) Revision of Plat After Approval. No changes, modifications, revisions or erasure shall be made on any plat of a subdivision, after approval has been granted by the Mahoning County Planning Commission and endorsed in writing on the plat, unless the plat is first resubmitted to the Commission for reevaluation and appropriate action.
(c) Sale of Land Classified as a Subdivision. No owner, or agent of the owner, of any land classified as a subdivision, shall transfer or sell any land by reference to, exhibition of, or by the use of a plat of the subdivision before such plat has been approved and recorded in the manner prescribed in these regulations. The description of such lot or parcel (subdivision) by metes and bounds in the intended instrument of transfer or other documents used in the process of selling or transferring real estate shall not exempt the transaction from the provisions of these regulations.
(d) Penalties. The following penalties shall apply to the provisions of these regulations:
(1) Whoever violates any rule or regulation adopted by the Mahoning County Planning Commission and the Board of Mahoning County Commissioners for the purpose of setting standards, requiring and securing the construction of improvements within a subdivision, or fails to comply with any other requirement pursuant thereto, shall forfeit and pay not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000). Such sum may be recovered with costs in civil action, brought in the Court of Common Pleas of Mahoning County by the Prosecuting Attorney in the name and for the use of Mahoning County.
(2) 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 brought by the Prosecuting Attorney of Mahoning County in the name and for the use of the County.
(3) The County Auditor and the County Recorder shall not transfer property or record deeds or leases which attempt to convey property contrary to the provisions of Ohio R. C. Chapter 711. In case of doubt, the County Auditor or County Recorder may require the person presenting such deed or lease to give evidence of the legality of a conveyance by metes and bounds by an affidavit as to the facts which exempt such conveyance from the provisions of Ohio R. C. Chapter 711.
(4) Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner, of any land within the jurisdictional area of the Mahoning County Planning Commission, 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 ten dollars ($10.00) 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 of transfer shall not serve to exempt the seller from the forfeiture provided in this section. The sum may be recovered in a civil action brought by the Prosecuting Attorney in the name and for the use of Mahoning County.
(5) Any person who disposes of, offers for sale or leases for a time exceeding five 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 ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each lot or part of a lot so sold, offered for sale or leased, to be recovered with costs in a civil action by the Prosecuting Attorney in the name and for the use of Mahoning County.
(Ord. 88-1. Passed 6-23-88.)