Chapter 16.36
PENALTIES
Sections:
16.36.020 Noncompliance--Enforcement.
16.36.010 General penalties.
Whenever any person, firm, or corporation at various and successive times, or any one time, has platted, subdivided, or divided into smaller parts, any parcel of land or property into two or more such lots, plots, tracts, or smaller parts, the area of each of which is five acres or less, for purposes of providing building sites, now, or at any time hence, held in one ownership, either by contract for purchase, by deed or by both, and after the time of the adoption of the ordinance codified herein, and has failed to comply with the provisions of this title, shall be punished as provided in Section 1.20.010; and whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner, of the land located within a plat or subdivision containing two or more such lots, plots, tracts, or smaller parts, transfers or sells, or agrees to sell, or option any land by reference to, or exhibition of or by any other use of a plat or map of a subdivision, before such plat or map has been approved by the city, and before the same has been filed for record in the office of the county auditor, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of three hundred dollars for each lot, or parcel so transferred, or sold, or agreed or optioned to be sold, and the description of such lot by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer, agreeing or optioning shall not exempt the transaction for such penalty. The planning commission may initiate an action to enjoin such transfer, sale, agreement or option by making application for an injunction in the superior court; or the planning commission may recover said penalty for the city by a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction, if, in the opinion of the planning commission either of said actions is justifiable. Each day that the violation persists shall constitute a new and separate offense contrary to this title and punishable by a separate penalty. (Ord. 1259 §2(part), 1999)
16.36.020 Noncompliance--Enforcement.
Noncompliance with any section of this title may result in enforcement actions. All enforcement shall be conducted pursuant to this chapter and GMC Sections 8.45.030 through 8.45.080. (Ord. 1259 §2(part), 1999)