§ 57-16. Violation and penalty.

(a)

No owner, or agent of the owner, of any land located within the platting jurisdiction of the city, knowingly or with intent to defraud, may transfer or sell that land by reference to or by other use of a plat of any purported subdivision of the land before the plat has been approved by the board of aldermen or the city planning commission and recorded in the office of the county recorder. Any person violating the provisions of this chapter shall forfeit and pay to the city a penalty not to exceed three hundred dollars ($300.00) for each lot transferred or sold; and the description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from this penalty. The city may enjoin or vacate the transfer or sale or agreement by legal action, and may recover the penalty in such action.

(b)

Any person violating the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by confinement in the county jail for not more than one (1) year, or by both such fine and confinement.

(Ord. No. 02-45, § 1, 7-1-02)