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 Code of Ordinances
 Appendix B. SUBDIVISIONS

  § XVI. VIOLATION AND PENALTY  

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  • A.

    Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within a subdivision, transfers or sells or agrees to transfer or sell any land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat of a subdivision, before such plat has been approved by the planning commission and recorded or filed in the office of the clerk of court of the Parish of Acadia, shall make the instrument of transfer subject to compliance with laws, ordinances and regulations relative to the development of subdivisions.

    B.  (1)  Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within a subdivision, transfers or sells or agrees to sell any land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat of a subdivision, before such plat has been approved by the planning commission and recorded or filed in the office of the clerk of court of the parish, without making the instrument of transfer subject to compliance with laws, ordinances and regulations relative to the development of subdivisions, shall pay a penalty of $500.00 for each lot or parcel so transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to be sold.

    (2)

    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.

    (3)

    The city may enjoin such transfer or sale or agreement by suit for injunction brought in any court of competent jurisdiction or may recover the penalty by a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction.

    C.

    Where decisions are left herein to the planning commission, any person dissatisfied with such decision may appeal therefrom to the planning commission. Such appeal shall be made by letter addressed to the commission through its secretary, with sufficient copies to all members of the commission. Upon receipt of such an appeal, the secretary shall notify the members of the commission of such appeal and expeditiously place the appeal on the agenda of the commission for a hearing.