§ 40-187. Enforcement and penalties.

(a)

Generally.

(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 a planning commission and recorded and filed in the office of the clerk of court of the parish, shall pay a penalty of $100.00 for each lot or parcel so transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to be sold. 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.

(2)

The parish or municipality as the case may be, 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.

(b)

Improvements and unapproved streets. The parish or municipality as the case may be shall not accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave, curb or light any street or lay or authorize to be laid, any water mains, sewers or utility connections in any street within any portion of territory for which a planning commission has adopted a major street plan except as provided for under Louisiana Act No. 139 of 1956, R.S. 33:115 as amended.

(Ord. of 6-30-1969, § 7.1)