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 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 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. If such land is within a municipal corporation, such sum may be recovered in a civil action brought in the Court of Common Pleas of the appropriate county by the legal representative of the Municipality in the name of the Municipality.
(Ord. 2014-27. Passed 8-5-14.)