(A) (1) Whenever in this chapter an act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or whenever in this chapter the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, and no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any provision or the failure to perform any act shall be punishable by a fine of not exceeding $500 or by imprisonment not to exceed 90 days, or by both the fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
(2) Each day any violation or failure to perform the act shall continue shall constitute a separate offense and a separate violation of an ordinance of this city, unless otherwise specifically provided.
(1981 Code, § 25-8) (Ord. 809, passed 10-10-1989)
(B) (1) Any owner, or agent of the owner, of any land located within the platting jurisdiction of the city who transfers, sells, agrees to sell, or negotiates to sell the land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat or subdivision of the land before the plat has been approved, as provided in this chapter, and recorded in the office of the County Recorder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(2) Upon conviction, the owner or his or her agent shall pay a penalty of $100 for each lot transferred or sold, or agreed or negotiated to be sold.
(3) The description 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.
(4) The city, through its attorney or other official designated by the City Commission, may enjoin the transfer or sale or agreement by action for injunction or may recover the penalty by civil action.
(1981 Code, § 25-9)