(A) This chapter shall be enforced, and violations penalized as follows:
(1) Any person, whether as principal, agent, employee, or otherwise who violates any provision of this chapter shall be subject to a fine of not more than $500 for each lot so divided, transferred, or sold. The description of the lot by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from the penalties or from the remedies herein provided.
(2) Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this chapter and the Zoning Ordinance relating to site development plan approval may be subject to the penalties provided in NCC § 154.999.
(3) Notwithstanding the availability or imposition of any other penalty, the Board of Supervisors of Northampton County or the subdivision agent may institute any appropriate action or proceeding, at law or in equity, to prevent a violation or attempted violation, to restrain, correct, or abate a violation or attempted violation, or to prevent any act which would constitute a violation of this chapter.
(4) No permit shall be issued by any administrative officer of Northampton County for the construction of any building, structure, or improvement requiring a permit upon any land for which an approval pursuant to this chapter is required, unless and until the person seeking the permit complies with the requirements of this chapter.
(5) Failure by the Clerk of the Court to comply with § 156.012(E) shall invoke the penalty provisions of VA Code §§ 17.1-223 or 17.1-291, as made applicable pursuant to VA Code § 15.2-2254.
(6) Fees and charges for the administration and enforcement of the subdivision ordinance shall in no instance exceed an amount commensurate with the services rendered taking into consideration the time, skill and administrator's expense involved. All such charges heretofore made are hereby validated.
(B) Stat. Auth. VA Code § 15.2-2241.
(Ord. passed 11-15-2006; Am. Ord. passed 11-10-2020; Am. Ord. passed 12-8-2020)