§ 70-204. Enforcement.  


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  • (a)

    Where the standards imposed by this chapter are more or less restrictive than the standards imposed by any other public regulation, the more restrictive shall apply.

    (b)

    No person shall subdivide land without making and recording a plat of such subdivision and without fully complying with the provisions of this subdivision ordinance and state and federal law.

    (c)

    No such plat of any subdivision shall be recorded unless or until it shall have been submitted to and approved by the agent.

    (d)

    No person shall sell or transfer any lot or parcel in a subdivision before the plat as been approved and recorded as provided herein unless such subdivision was lawfully created prior to the adoption of this ordinance or any predecessor subdivision ordinance; provided, however, that nothing herein shall be construed as preventing the passage of title of property.

    (e)

    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 or transferred or 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.

    (f)

    The agent and county attorney may take such other legal action as may be necessary to enforce the provisions of this ordinance, including suit for injunction, for abatement, restraining order or other appropriate proceedings.

    (g)

    The zoning administrator shall not approve a site development plan nor issue a zoning permit for any lot that was created in, or resulted from, a violation of this ordinance.