Any person who, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within the territorial jurisdiction of this chapter, thereafter subdivides his or her land in violation of this chapter or transfers or sells land by reference to, exhibition of or any other use of a plat showing a subdivision of the land before the plat has been properly approved under the terms of this chapter and recorded in the office of the County Register of Deeds, shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The town may bring an action for injunction of any illegal subdivision, transfer, conveyance, or sale of land, and the court shall, upon appropriate findings, issue an injunction and order requiring the offending party to comply with the subdivision regulation. Building permits may be denied for illegal subdivisions. In addition to other remedies, the town may institute any appropriate action or proceedings to prevent the unlawful subdivision of land; to restrain, correct, or abate the violation; or to prevent any illegal act or conduct. The Subdivision Administrator is also entitled to exercise the remedies set forth in Chapter 154, Zoning Code, § 154.999.
(Prior Code, § 9-3019) (Ord. passed 6-11-1974; Ord. passed 6-29-2021)