Whoever, being the owner or the agent of the owner of any land located within the
metropolitan planning area, transfers or sells or agrees to sell or negotiates to
sell such land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat of subdivision
of such land before such plat has been approved by the planning commission and recorded
in the office of the clerk of court and recorder of the parish, shall be subject to
a penalty of $100.00 for each lot so transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to
be sold; and the description 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. The parish, through its attorney or other designated
official, may enjoin such transfer of sale or agreement by action for injunction or
may recover the penalty by civil action.
(b)
The person notified in writing by the planning commission of a violation of any of
the provisions of this article shall have the violation corrected within 60 days,
and each day that a violation is permitted to exist beyond the allowed 60 days shall
constitute a separate offense. Any person violating or neglecting or refusing to comply
with any provision of this article shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than
$100.00 for each offense.
