No owner, or agent of the owner, of any land located within the platting jurisdiction of this City, knowingly or with intent to defraud, may transfer, sell, agree to sell, or negotiate to 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 Planning Commission and recorded in the office of the appropriate County Recorder. Any person violating the provisions of this Section shall forfeit and pay to the City a penalty not less than ten dollars ($10.00) or more than three hundred dollars ($300.00), plus all costs of the proceeding(s) to enforce this Section, for each lot transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to be 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.
[Ord. No. 18.110 §§1 — 2, 4-6-1981]
A. 
No person, firm or corporation shall erect or maintain any dwelling house, house trailer, shed, tent or other structure upon any lot or combination of lots within the City of California, Missouri, having a frontage width of less than fifty (50) feet, except that this Section shall not apply to structures already existing on or before April 6, 1981.
B. 
Violation of this Section shall be punishable by a fine of five hundred dollars ($500.00) and after conviction, each day that any such structure is not removed, shall be an additional violation.