Any person, partnership, or corporation who or which being the owner
or agent of any lot, tract or parcel of land shall lay out, construct, open
or dedicate any street, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, water main or other improvements
for public use, travel or other purposes or for the common use of occupants
of buildings abutting thereon, or who sells, transfers or agrees or enters
into an agreement to sell any land in a subdivision or land development whether
by reference to or by other use of a plat of such subdivision or land development
or erects any building thereon, unless and until a final plat has been prepared
in full compliance with provisions of this chapter and of the regulations
adopted hereunder and has been recorded as provided herein, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, such person, or the members
of such partnership, or the officers of such corporation, or the agent of
any of them, responsible for such violation, pay a fine not exceeding $1,000
per lot or parcel or per dwelling within each lot or parcel. All fines collected
for such violations shall be paid over to the Borough of Coudersport.
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 seller or transferor from such penalties or from the remedies herein provided.