No person, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land within the City, shall willfully transfer, contract to sell or sell any lot, parcel or tract of such land from or in accordance with a plat of a subdivision, as specifically defined in Ohio R.C. Chapter 711, before the plat has been recorded in the office of the County Recorder. The description of the lot, parcel or tract by metes and bounds in the deed of transfer or contract to sell shall not serve to exempt the seller from the requirements of this section. The sale of lots, parcels or tracts from a plat of a subdivision on which any and all areas indicated as streets or open grounds are expressly indicated as for the exclusive use of the abutting or other owners in the subdivision, and not as public streets, ways or grounds, shall not serve to exempt the seller from the requirements of this section.
(Ord. 154-86. Passed 9-15-86.)