(a) Whoever violates any rule or regulation adopted by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation for the purpose 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). Such sum may be recovered with costs in a civil action brought in the Court of Common Pleas of the County in which the land lies relative to which such violation occurred, by legal representative of the Village, in the name of such Village, and for the use thereof.
(b) A County Recorder who records a plat contrary to the provisions of these Regulations shall forfeit and pay not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) to be recovered with costs in a civil action by the prosecuting attorney in the name and for the use of the Village.
(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 one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each lot, parcel or tract of land sold, to be recovered with costs in a civil action by the prosecuting attorney in the name and for the use of the Village. The description of such 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 leases 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 one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each lot or part of a lot so sold, offered for sale or leased, to be recovered with costs in a civil action by the prosecuting attorney in the name and for the use of the Village.
(Ord. 22-93. Passed 11-15-93.)