The following penalties shall apply to violations of these Regulations:
(a) Whoever violates any rule or regulation adopted by the City Planning Commission for the purpose of setting standards and requiring and securing the construction of improvements within a subdivision, or fails to comply with any order made pursuant thereto, is creating a public nuisance and the creation thereof may be enjoined and the maintenance thereof may be abated by suit of the city or any citizen thereof. Whoever violates these Regulations shall forfeit and pay not less than $100, nor more than $1,000. Such sum may be recovered with costs in a civil action brought in the Court of Common Pleas of Richland County.
(b) A 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 costs in a civil action by the City Law Director in the name and for the use of the city.
(c) Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land within or without the city, 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 not less than $100, nor more than $500 for each lot, parcel or tract or 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.
(d) Any person who disposes of, or offers for sale or lease, for a time exceeding five years, any lot or any part of a lot in a subdivision before the provisions of these Regulations are complied with, shall forfeit and pay 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 Director of Finance and Public Record for the use of the city.
(Ord. 17-83, passed 6-6-1983)