(a) Failure to correct the conditions in violation with the provisions of this Planning and Zoning Code, as ordered by the Zoning Administrator, shall constitute a misdemeanor. Upon conviction of such violations, the responsible person or party shall be fined not less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned for not more than six months or both. Each day such violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense. Any other person, who commits, participates in or assists in the continuation of said violation may each be found guilty of a separate offense and suffer the penalties provided.
(b) The following additional penalties shall apply to violations against the Subdivision Regulations set forth in Title Five of this Planning and Zoning Code:
(1) Whoever violates any rule or regulation set forth in this Planning and Zoning Code for the purposes of setting standards and requiring and securing the construction of improvements within a subdivision, or fails to comply with any order pursuant thereto, shall forfeit and pay not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). Such sum may be recovered with costs in a civil action brought in the Court of Common Pleas by the City Attorney.
(2) Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land within the 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 one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each lot, parcel or tract of land so sold. The description of such lot, parcel or tract of land by metes and bounds in the deed and transfer shall not serve to exempt the seller from the forfeiture provided in this Section.
(3) Any person who disposes of or offers for sale or lease, any lot or any part of a lot in a subdivision before provisions of the Title Five are complied with, shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each lot or part of the lot so sold or offered for sale or lease, to be recovered with costs in a civil action, in the name of the Finance Director.
(Ord. 2006-35. Passed 5-25-06.)