No person or his or her agent owning land composing a subdivision shall transfer or sell or agree to sell any lot or parcel of land located within a subdivision by reference to, or by exhibition, or by any other use of a plat of such subdivision, before such plat has received final approval of City Council and/or the Planning Board, and the final plat has been recorded. Any such instrument of transfer, sale, or contract shall be void, and shall not be subject to be recorded, but all rights of such purchaser to damages are preserved. The description of such lot, parcel, or tract by metes and bounds in any contract or instrument of transfer to other documents used in the process of selling or transferring same shall not exempt the person attempting to transfer from penalties provided or deprive the purchaser of any rights or remedies he or she may otherwise have.
(Ord. 5-14, passed 3-17-2014)