(A) Any person who, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within a subdivision, transfers or sells, agrees to sell or negotiates to sell any land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat of a subdivision, before the plat has been approved by the Planning Commission and bonded or recorded in the office of the county where deeds are required to be recorded, shall upon conviction forfeit and pay the penalties as the court may decide as prescribed by South Carolina law for each lot or parcel so transferred or sold or so negotiated for sale. The description of the lot or parcel by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring the lot or parcel shall not exempt the transaction from penalties or from the remedies herein provided.
(B) After notification of the adoption of these regulations, the RMC office for Lexington County shall not accept, file, or record any subdivision plat which has not been approved by the Planning Commission as required under these regulations.
(C) Should any public official violate the provisions of this chapter, he or she shall in each instance be subject to the same penalty as provided in § 10.99.
(1985 Code, Ch. 12, § 10.1)