A. No subdivision of land within the jurisdiction of either the City or County may be filed or recorded with the Office of the Register of Deeds until it has been submitted to and approved by the Planning Director or designee, and until the approval is entered on the face of the plat.

B. Any person who, being the owner or the agent of the owner of any land located within the jurisdiction of this Ordinance, subdivides land in violation of this Ordinance, or transfers, or sells land by reference to, exhibition of, or any other use of a plat showing a subdivision of the land before the plat has been properly approved under this Ordinance, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds, shall be punishable pursuant to State and local law.

C. The description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer, or other document used in the process of selling or transferring land, does not exempt the transaction from penalties. The City or County, as appropriate, may bring an action for injunction of any illegal subdivision, transfer, conveyance, or sale of land, and the court shall, upon appropriate findings, issue an injunction and order for compliance.