§ 22-98. Penalties.

(a)

No person shall subdivide land without making and recording a plat of the subdivision and without fully complying with the provisions of this chapter.

(b)

No plat of any subdivision shall be recorded unless and until it has been submitted to and approved by the town council.

(c)

No person shall sell or transfer any land of a subdivision, before a plat has been duly approved and recorded as provided herein. However, nothing herein contained shall be construed as preventing the recordation of the instrument by which such land is transferred or the passage of title as between the parties to the instrument.

(d)

Any person violating the foregoing provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine of not more than $500.00 for each lot or parcel of land so subdivided, transferred or sold and, shall be required to comply with all provisions of this chapter. The description of the 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 the penalties or remedies herein provided.

(e)

No clerk of any court shall file or record a plat of a subdivision required by the chapter to be recorded until the plat has been approved as required herein. The penalties provided by Code of Virginia, § 17.1-223 shall apply to any failure to comply with the provisions of this subsection.

(f)

A violation or threatened violation of this chapter may be enjoined by application to the circuit court by the administrator without the necessity of showing that an adequate remedy at law does not exist.

(Ord. of 12-8-2009, § IV-2)

(Ord. of 12-8-2009, § IV-2)