The following penalties shall apply to the violations of these regulations:
(A) Whoever violates any rule or regulations adopted by the Village Council for the purpose of setting standards and requiring, and securing, the construction of improvements with a subdivision, or fails to comply within any order pursuant thereto, shall forfeit and pay not less than $100, nor more than $1,000 dollars. Such sum may be recovered with costs in a civil action brought in the County Court of Common Pleas by the legal representative of the village in the name of the village, and for the use thereof.
(B) The County Recorder, who records a plat contrary to the provisions of these regulations, shall forfeit and pay not less than $100, nor more than $500, to be recovered with the costs in a civil action by the prosecuting attorney in the name and for the use of the county.
(C) 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 $100, nor more than $500, for each lot, parcel, or tract by metes and bounds in the deed or transfer shall not serve to exempt the seller from the forfeiture provided in this section.
(D) 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 the sum of not less than $100, nor more than $500, 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 Village Treasurer for the use of the village.
(Ord. 367, passed 8-27-1973)