13-4-306 - Penalties for transferring lots in unapproved subdivisions.
13-4-306. Penalties for transferring lots in unapproved subdivisions.
Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land, 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 without having submitted a plat of such subdivision to the municipal planning commission and obtained its approval as required by this part, and before such plat be recorded in the office of the appropriate county register, commits a Class C misdemeanor; 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 municipality, through its solicitor or other official designated by its chief legislative body, may enjoin such transfer or sale or agreement by action for injunction.
[Acts 1935, ch. 45, § 5; C. Supp. 1950, § 3407.14; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-606; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.]