The following penalties shall apply to violations of these Regulations:
(a) Whoever violates any rule or regulation adopted by Council 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, is creating a public nuisance. The creation of such nuisance may be enjoined and the maintenance thereof may be abated by action at suit of the Municipality or any citizen thereof. Whoever violates these Regulations shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). Such sum may be recovered, with costs, in a civil action brought in the Court of Common Pleas.
(b) A Wood 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 Wood County Prosecuting Attorney.
(c) Whoever, being the owner or the 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 Wood 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 transferred. The description of such lot, parcel or tract of land so transferred by metes and bounds in the deed or transfer shall not serve to exempt the seller from the forfeiture provided in this section. If such land is within a municipal corporation, such sum may be recovered in a civil action brought in the Court of Common Pleas by the legal representative of the Municipality, in the name of the Municipality.
(d) Any person who disposes of or offers for sale or lease, for a time exceeding five years, any lot or any part of a lot in a subdivision, before the 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 leased, to be recovered with costs in a civil action brought in the name of the Municipality.
(Ord. 2002-45. Passed 8-22-02; Ord. 2018-53. Passed 2-24-19.)