§ 31-23-216 — Penalties for sales in unapproved subdivisions

Whoever, being
the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within a subdivision, transfers
or sells, agrees to sell, or negotiates to sell any land by reference to or exhibition of
or by use of a plat of a subdivision before such plat has been approved by the
commission and recorded or filed in the office of the appropriate county clerk and
recorder shall pay a penalty of one hundred dollars to the municipality for each lot
or parcel so transferred, or sold, or agreed or negotiated to be sold. 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 provided in this section. The
municipality may enjoin such transfer or sale or agreement by action for injunction
brought in any court of competent jurisdiction and may recover the penalty by civil
action in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Legislative History

Source: L. 75: Entire title R&RE, p. 1151, � 1, effective July 1.