A.
Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located
within the jurisdiction of these regulations, knowingly or with intent
to defraud, transfers or sells or agrees to sell or negotiates to
sell any land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of
a plat of land subdivision before such plat has been approved by the
Planning Commission and recorded or filed in the office of the Clerk
of the Circuit Court, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not more
than $100 for each lot or parcel so transferred or sold or agreed
or negotiated to be sold, and the description of such lot or parcel
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 such penalties or from the remedies herein provided.
The Mayor and Council may enjoin such transfer or sale or agreement
by action for injunction brought in any court of equity jurisdiction
or may recover said penalty by civil action in any court of competent
jurisdiction.
B.
Every act or omission in violation of this chapter shall be punishable
as provided herein. Where such an act or omission is of a continuing
nature, each and every day during which such act or omission continues
shall be deemed a separate misdemeanor.
