1116.05 PENALTIES.
The following penalties shall apply to the violations of these Subdivision 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 and the creation thereof may be enjoined and maintenance thereof may be abated by action at suit of the City or County or any citizen thereof. Whoever violates these Regulations shall forfeit and pay not less than a penalty in the amount of one thousand dollars ($1,000). Such sum may be recovered with costs in a civil action brought in the Municipal Court of Norwalk, Ohio.
(b) 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 a penalty in the amount of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) 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 herein. If such land is within the City, such sum may be recovered in a civil action brought in any court of competent jurisdiction by the City Law Director in the name of Norwalk for the use of the thoroughfare repair fund thereof.
(c) Any person who disposes of, offers for sale or lease 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 a penalty in the amount of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for each lot or part of a lot so sold, offered for sale or leased, to be recovered with costs in a civil action, in the name of the Director of Finance, for the use of the City.
(Ord. 2011-008. Passed 3-15-11.)