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.